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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131505 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A HANDLING INTERFACE This invention pertains to a system for providing a handling interface. More specifically, a display module for displaying the contents as images, and a control module for displaying a handling interface having a shape corresponding to a handling device is shown on the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120054682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL CONTEXT DRILL-DOWN A system to display a graphical view for event drill-down. The system includes an environment monitor and a remote device. The environment monitor monitors an environment for an event. The environment monitor generates and sends a notification in response to detection o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110202877 | Apparatus and Method for Controlling a Display to Provide Content Navigation An apparatus and method for controlling a display to provide content navigation is provided. In an aspect, a plurality of graphical cascades are created, where at least one of the graphical cascades is provided for menu navigation, and another of the graphical cascades ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110161879 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF BROWSING IMAGES THEREON A method of browsing images on an electronic device includes displaying an index. The index defines F items. Each item has an item number. A display shows G images with image numbers. All the image numbers are defined from 1 to N. The item number corresponds to the imag... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20100235790 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING OBJECTS First user-generated input is received that selects a first element in a graphical user interface identifying a work area. In response, a plurality of second elements characterizing categories of objects associated with the work area are displayed in the graphical user ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100229121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING, AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING ATTENTION HOTSPOTS IN SHARED MEDIA A method and system for providing an attention hotspot in temporal media is provided and executes following explicit or implicit user actions. The method comprises identifying at least one event related to playback or browsing of the temporal media, deriving the signifi... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20090319899 | USER INTERFACE, METHOD OF NAVIGATING CONTENT, APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING CONTENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD A user interface for navigating content to be reproduced by selecting a filtering condition according to a user's preference on the basis of a playlist, a method of navigating content using the user interface, an apparatus for reproducing content, and a computer-readabl... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090271736 | Method and Disc Drive for Providing a Content Entity from a Storage Disc A method for providing a content entity from a storage disc is described. The storage disc comprises at least one further content entity. Each content entity comprises a main menu and at least one submenu accessible via the main menu. The storage disc further comprises ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090249252 | LIST-POSITION LOCATOR A method, system, and medium are provided for efficiently locating a desired item within an ordered list of items, such as a list of contacts, pictures, or football teams. An illustrative method includes presenting a selectable option on a mobile device's display, prese... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090183119 | NAVIGATION OF AN N-DIMENSIONAL HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE USING A 2-DIMENSIONAL CONTROLLER A system and method for navigating a multi-hierarchical menu system using a two-dimensional controller, comprising displaying an Nth level of the multi-hierarchical menu system having a plurality of icons in proximity to a pointer on a portion of a display, s... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090183118 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INPUT ELEMENT SELECTION INFORMATION A method of displaying input element selection information on menu information including at least one input element. The method includes receiving a request for an input element selection movement from a currently selected input element to another input element, generat... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090177984 | CALENDAR ENTRY DISPLAY METHOD A method of displaying a calendar entry of an electronic calendar application is disclosed. The method includes determining if a user of the electronic calendar application is within a specified distance of a location of an appointment corresponding to the calendar entr... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090089709 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT AS A FUNCTION OF CONTEXT AND STATE INFORMATION A visualization system that generates customized visualization(s) in an industrial automation environment includes an interface component that receives input concerning displayed objects and information, a context component that can detect, infer or determine context in... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090002373 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GUIDED GRAPHICAL NAVIGATION THROUGH MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to analyze a categorical dimension of multi-dimensional data as a function of entropy to form entropy results. The entropy results are plotted as a stacked bar chart. A user graphically navigates throug... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080250339 | EXTENSIBLE MASTER-SLAVE USER INTERFACE WITH DISTINCT INTERACTION MODELS A method, computer system and computer readable medium regarding an extensible master-slave user interface with distinct interaction models is presented. A slave region is displayed in a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the slave region displaying a current state. A mast... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080235623 | Privacy enhanced browser A method and apparatus for filtering user identifying information. A user request for content is received, the request including user identifying information. A determination is made as to whether the user request satisfies context criteria. If the user request satisfie... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080229204 | Apparatus, System And Method For The Navigation Of Aggregated Content Using Skipping And Content Metadata Apparatus, system and method for the navigation of aggregated content using skipping and content metadata. An apparatus includes a processor to receive a control signal from a navigation controller and to display a skip function user interface on a display device. The s... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080195972 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING AN ICON OF A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE The described embodiments relate generally to methods, systems and devices for accessing an icon on a display by shifting emphasis from one icon list to another icon list on the display. The icon may be a user profile application icon that can be used to access a user p... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080195973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC ITEM MANAGEMENT A method of managing electronic items is provided. User-owned images of items are received and stored to a plurality of virtual closets. Each of the plurality of virtual closets are associated with a specific position in a stack. The stack has a plurality of positions. ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080134087 | HVAC ZONE CONTROL PANEL A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode ... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080077857 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for navigating content Methods, systems, and computer program products which enhance the use of digitized content by users are described. The methods, systems, and computer program products include causing portions of the content to be adjusted in size according to dimensions which would best... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20070078886 | Intellectual property asset manager (IPAM) for context processing of data objects Context data processing is described herein. One or more contexts are selected. Each context includes one or more attributes, and a plurality of data objects that satisfy the attributes. A list of data objects contained in the selected contexts is displayed. At least so... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070044037 | Menu display device and method The present invention provides a menu display device and a menu display method that can provide a menu for easy use by the user. The device has, for example, a liquid crystal display device, CRT or other display part for displaying the menu, a storage part for storing t... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20060010382 | Displaying events by category based on a logarithmic timescale An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of displaying one or more categories, with each category including one or more events; selecting one of the categories; generating a timeline for the selected category based on a logarithmic scale;... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050229112 | Method and system for conveying an image position The invention concerns a system (100) and method (300, 600) of conveying an image (400, 700, 800) position. The method includes the steps of displaying (312, 612) at least a portion of an image on a display (112) and modifying (314,... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050216863 | Structured document browser A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that s... | 09/29/2005 |
| 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 |
| 20050193340 | Apparatus and method regarding dynamic icons on a graphical user interface A multifunctional device, such as a multifunction printer, enabling dynamic configurations of the icons on a graphical user interface. In some embodiments, the dynamic configurations create context specific icon layouts. Additionally, in some embodiments, a single icon ... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050183040 | Information processing device, information processing method, and program storage medium [Object]The object of the present invention is to make the setting condition of menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen with regard to the predetermined object to be operated. [Solution]According to the present invention, since ... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050177803 | Methods and systems of providing information to computer users Systems of providing information to computer users are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises means for displaying, in a navigable window of a display area of a user interface, a first contextual display associated with a first context that can enable a user... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050154995 | Intelligent agenda object for showing contextual location within a presentation application A method for displaying a slide show containing an outline that follows the progression of the user's presentation comprising a Configuration Program (CP) and an Intelligent Agenda Program (IAP). The CP allows the user to configure the intelligent agenda of the present ... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050154988 | Modal display, smooth scroll graphic user interface and remote command device suitable for efficient navigation and selection of dynamic data/options presented within an audio/visual system The efficient and intuitive presentation, navigation, and selection of available AV information in a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayed on a display apparatus of an AV system and controlled through user manipulation of a scrolling mechanism of a navigation... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050132297 | Intelligent backward resource navigation A system for navigating among resources includes a target detection module detecting whether a first resource has been branched from to two other different resources and a backward navigation module operable to detect selection of a backward navigation button and cause ... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050132296 | Intelligent forward resource navigation Implementations are described and claimed herein to enable a user to quickly and efficiently locate preferred web pages or resources based on previous navigation. Implementations may utilize an “intelligent forward” resource navigation scheme which analyzes a user's... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050114782 | Providing navigation in a browser When a user clicks a Back button or a Forward button while reviewing an application page in a browser, the client performs an action in response which is specified by a server. The Back and Forward buttons may be controlled by the server and may be used to provide real ... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050102635 | Navigation pattern on a directory tree Navigation management occurs in a mobile device during a directory up-down scroll and it involves a user interface and a directory (e.g., mobile directory of photos). The directory is a tree-shaped hierarchy of nodes such that any node on the directory is selectable by ... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050091610 | Selective display of windows on an auxiliary output device A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment select a subset of windows displayed on an output device for display via an auxiliary output device, e.g., a projector. In various embodiments, the selection of the subset is based on a group a... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050091596 | Graphical user interface for 3-dimensional view of a data collection based on an attribute of the data A three-dimensional (3D) view of a data collection based on an attribute is disclosed. A timeline is provided for displaying files and folders. The timeline may include a focal group that displays detailed information about its contents to the user. Remaining items on t... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050086610 | Systems and methods for effective attention shifting Techniques are provided to improve communication through selective display of attention shifting display elements. A focus of attention is determined, display events located and attention shifting display elements displayed. The attention shifting display elements sugge... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050086611 | Display method and display device A display mode in which a hierarchical structure or the like in a menu screen is easily understood is provided in electronic equipment that displays the menu screen. When an input state of electronic equipment is displayed on the menu screen, a ring is displayed on a pi... | 04/21/2005 |
