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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131508 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MOBILE TERMINAL A method and apparatus for displaying a list of information items selected depending on whether each information item contains certain information is provided. An information display method of the present invention includes displaying a list having at least one informat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131111 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POINT-AND-CLICK MESSAGING Methods and systems are provided for communicating with elements of a complex system displayed on a web page comprising a electronic map and a plurality of icons disposed on the electronic map, each of the plurality of icons representing an element of the complex system... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131504 | THERMOSTAT GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE A thermostat for controlling an HVAC system is described, the thermostat having a user interface that is visually pleasing, approachable, and easy to use while also providing intuitive navigation within a menuing system. In a first mode of operation, an electronic displ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131484 | COHORT-SELECTABLE FACETED DISPLAY A computer-implemented display of semantically characterized information can include cohort indicators representing a group of one or more specified cohort parameters applied in such a way so as to filter a dataset comprising RDF structured data items. Each cohort indic... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131506 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a method may obtain metadata associated with corresponding values of a first characteristic and a second characteristic of a plurality of content elements. A display including a plu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131503 | APPLICATION DISPLAYING METHOD FOR TOUCH-CONTROLLED DEVICE AND TOUCH-CONTROLLED DEVICE THEREOF A method for displaying applications of a touch-controlled device includes the steps of: generating an electronic signal according a gesture applied on a touch panel of the touch-controlled device; generating a detection result according to the electronic signal, wherei... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109792 | INSTANT TAX RETURN PREPARATION A method involves generating a partially completed tax return based on basic user information without needing to obtain other user inputs through an extensive user interview. A list of simple and concise interview questions are generated or selected from an interview qu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110502 | USING SCREEN CAPTURES TO PROVIDE AUTOMATIC CONTEXTUAL SMART INPUT-IN DEVICE SELECTION MENU A two-way smart input-in device recognition mechanism determines which input slots of a multi-input display device (such as a television) are actually occupied, and obtains a screen capture of a graphic image for each such device. An embodiment of the present invention ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110504 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROJECT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT A method and system for project and portfolio management is disclosed. The method may include tagging one or more data records of projects of a plurality of projects with one or more tags, and displaying on a display device the one or more tagged data records with infor... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING STORED ULTRASOUND DATA Methods and systems for organizing stored ultrasound data are provided. One method includes displaying selectable anatomical identification guidance information having a plurality of identifiers corresponding to a plurality of anatomical portions of an anatomical region... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110503 | IMAGING PRODUCT SELECTION SYSTEM A computer system for selecting image products includes a display for displaying digital images, and for displaying representations of image products. Digital images are composited into the displayed representations to form digitally composited image product views. Prog... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A PRIMARY DISPLAY AREA Receiving commands from a remote controller and automatically activating display areas for cursor navigation. Content display areas within a display frame respectively correspond to a variety of content items and include a primary display area wherein cursor navigation ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084728 | BUTTON CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL TOUCH SCREEN AND METHOD THEREOF A button control system for medical touch screen and method thereof comprises a central control module, a touch signal input module, a lock time control module, a button lock module, a button unlock module and a cleanse display module, wherein the central control module... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084352 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF A user terminal device and method for providing a service in the user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a location calculation unit that calculates location information of the user terminal device, a storage unit that stores a service hub pr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084548 | Method and Module for Simulating Keyboard This disclosure provides a method and a module for simulating a keyboard used in an electronic device having a hot key. The method for simulating a keyboard at least includes the following steps. First, whether the hot key is pressed is checked. If the hot key is presse... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072868 | FREQUENCY CONVERTER WITH TEXT EDITOR A frequency converter includes a symbol string editor in which the potential input symbols are grouped into at least two symbol lists. One of the lists is treated as a current symbol list, which can be scrolled and from which the symbols can be selected as the user inpu... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072869 | COPY SUPPORTING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, COPY SUPPORT METHOD, AND COPY SUPPORTING PROGRAM A copy supporting device includes a receiving unit, a content list display unit, a first input accepting unit, a sub menu display unit, a second input accepting unit, and a relevant content extracting unit. The sub menu display unit displays, on the basis of attribute i... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072842 | APPARATUS FOR COOKING AND METHOD OF HELPING A USER TO COOK The present invention provides an apparatus for cooking and a method of helping a user to cook by prompting the user, step by step, to carry out the corresponding preparation at the right time. The apparatus comprises a presenter, configured to present information with ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069028 | REAL-TIME ANIMATIONS OF EMOTICONS USING FACIAL RECOGNITION DURING A VIDEO CHAT Embodiments are directed towards displaying an animated video emoticon by augmenting features identified in a video stream. Augmenting features identified in the video stream may include modifying, in whole or in part, some aspects of the identified features but not oth... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054677 | DYNAMIC VIEW COMPUTATION AND DISPLAY Methods and apparatus for displaying objects in client GUI. A lead selection and scoping information is used to determine whether the object is viewable, and the object is rendered only if it is at least partially viewable. The lead selection and scoping information is ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054678 | DECLARATIVE METHOD FOR HANDLING DEFAULTS According to various embodiments, methods, systems, and configuration applications for handling defaults and/or choices in a product configuration are provided. An exemplary method of handling defaults in a product configuration comprises presenting a product configurat... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054679 | Menuing Structure for Favorite Media Content Technologies for generating a menu of favorite media items for presentation to a user are described. In one aspect, input from a user designating a show as a favorite show is received. In response to receiving the input, show information relating to the favorite show is... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054683 | METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND USER INTERFACE A method, apparatus, computer program and user interface wherein the method comprises: displaying on a display of an apparatus a plurality of items comprising a first subset of items and a second subset of items wherein the first subset of the plurality of items compris... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054620 | AUTOMATED CONTROLS FOR SENSOR ENABLED USER INTERFACE A mobile unit includes a processor, a memory, and a display. The display shows a user interface including a plurality of commands. Each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands is shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054685 | Systems and Methods for Controlling At Least A Portion of A Flow of Program Activity of A Computer Program A method of controlling at least a portion of a flow of program activity of a computer program including executing, by a processor, a computer program stored in memory to initiate the flow of program activity, the flow of program activity including a program environment... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054778 | Using Expanded Tiles to Access Personal Content A navigation system which provides: a navigation system 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 with ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050789 | Dynamically Generated Digital Photo Collections Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for manipulating media. In one aspect, a representation of a bookshelf having a plurality of shelves is displayed. A collection of pre-generated digital photo collections is accessed. A plu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050310 | PRIVACY LEVEL INDICATOR A method includes responsive to receiving a command to view multimedia content, displaying the multimedia content. A selection of a privacy level for the multimedia content is received, the privacy level indicating whether information associated with a user's viewing of... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054680 | USER CONTROL OF USER-RELATED DATA A method comprises receiving at a data exchange a request to review user data that has been gathered by one or more data holders and that relate to a given user, where the user data is being marketed for use in the data exchange, where the request includes an identifier... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054676 | CROSS-COMPONENT BUS CHANNEL COMMUNICATION AND SELECTION A method, an application component manager, and a set of instructions are disclosed. A user interface 150 may register a first user component selection and a first user channel selection. A processor 110 may assign a first transmitting application componen... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047462 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A display apparatus includes an image processor which processes an image to display an image content; a display unit which displays thereon an image content that is processed by the image processor; and a controller which displays a user interface (UI) menu including a ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047463 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING MENU SCREEN, USER DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD A method of configuring a menu screen is provided. The method includes generating at least one area within a display area; and arranging at least one menu item in the generated area, a user device for performing the method, and a computer-readable storage medium having ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047380 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION IN A LOW POWER MODE Provided herein is a method, apparatus, and computer program product for presenting information on a display to a user when the display is operating in a low, or reduced power mode. In particular, the method includes providing for operation in a user interface state tha... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046858 | ORGANIZING MEDIA DATA USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE The present invention relates to an electronic communication device, a portable electronic device, a method, a computer program product, a computer program element, and a system for organizing electronic media data in relation to fix points of geographic locations. The ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047461 | Reputation-Based Safe Access User Experience Reputation-based resource lookup may include determining the reputation of resources that are to be accessed. Based on the reputation of the resource, a user experience is provided. Protection can be provided from known and suspicious resources, by providing warnings, s... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041840 | HOT BUTTON FOR PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC AND RECOMMENDATION A hot button can be pressed to cause a computer to execute a series of diagnostic tests to identify the cause of poor computer performance. When a cause is determined a website address can be presented that a user can access to purchase goods or services to alleviate th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120036466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE DATA SET NAVIGATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE Example systems and methods provide navigation and review of images within a large data set via a handheld or other mobile device. A computer-implemented method includes providing a clinical data set divided into a plurality of portions. Each portion is associated with ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036474 | Table Management The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer system, and computer program product to manage a display of objects. A processor unit displays a graphical control configured to receive a user input of a value to control the display of a set of objects ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036475 | MENU DISPLAY APPARATUS, MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from eac... | 02/09/2012 |
