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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120036478 | SEMANTICALLY AWARE, DYNAMIC, MULTI-MODAL CONCORDANCE FOR UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION ANALYSIS An apparatus includes a data processing system for generating and displaying a semantic type concordance. The data processing system includes memory storing a computer program, a display to display data of a concordance generated by the program, and a processor configur... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110296349 | RECENT CONTACTS AND ITEMS The present invention provides a method and system of displaying items that gives the user the ability to easily access recently accessed items. The recent items list includes both incoming and outgoing correspondences that are attempted to be matched to the correspondi... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110258216 | USABILITY ENHANCEMENTS FOR BOOKMARKS OF BROWSERS Bookmarks can reference uniquely addressed Web resources. Bookmark annotations can include user specified, digital content related to uniquely addressed Web resources. An user interface of an annotative bookmark manager can permit users to create, edit, and delete bookm... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110161329 | TAG CLOUD BUDDY LIST FOR MESSAGING CONTACTS Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for tag cloud buddy lists. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for tag cloud buddy list management can be provided. The method can include loading a list of contacts in a ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161857 | Graphic for Displaying Multiple Assessments of Critical Care Performance Systems and methods for rendering a graphic that describes multiple dimensions of performance for a subject intensive care unit (ICU) over a predefined period of time are provided. One method involves measuring the performance of the subject ICU against various metrics ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154191 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO PRESENT CHANGES IN CLINICAL RECORDS Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to present changes in clinical records are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes identifying a difference between first and second clinical records of a patient, forming an animated clinical record display ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110138278 | MOBILE INFOMATION TERMINAL To provide a mobile information terminal that makes it easy to view a menu screen including many thumbnail images and improves operability at the time of selecting a thumbnail image. The mobile information terminal is configured to be provi... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110072377 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAYING METHOD OF THE SAME A display apparatus and a displaying method of the same, the display apparatus including a content output unit which outputs at least one content; a display unit; a video processor which processes and outputs a list image of the contents to the display unit; and a contr... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072394 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Manipulating User Interface Objects A computing device with a touch screen display simultaneously displays on the touch screen display a plurality of user interface objects and at least one destination object. The computing device detects a first input by a user on a destination object displayed on the to... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110047212 | ADJUSTMENT OF A CONTACT LIST A method for adjusting a contact list is provided. The method includes obtaining a contact list having a list of one or more media types for a contact. Contact data is obtained. The contact data defines an accessibility of the contact to the one or more media types. The... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110035705 | ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION METHOD A method of operating an entertainment system includes computer-implemented steps including accessing a source of audio/video content. The source is capable of providing a plurality of media items. The media items are analyzed to thereby determine a corresponding classi... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110016426 | Color Selection and Application Method for Image and/or Text-Based Projects Created Through an Online Editing Tool In a system for creating and editing image and or text-based projects including a server connected to a data network, the server having access to a digital medium containing an executable graphics user interface (GUI) accessible by computer browser, the GUI for contribu... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016390 | MOBILE TERMINAL TO DISPLAY MENU INFORMATION ACCORDING TO TOUCH SIGNAL A mobile terminal that displays menu information along a trace may include a memory unit to store menu information; a touch screen including a touch panel, the touch screen to display the menu information; and a controller to control the touch screen to display at least... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100287492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MENU ITEMS In a hand-held device, a graphic user interface (GUI), comprising an active area in which a selected one or more items is displayed, said selected one or more items can be manipulated when displayed in said active area. The GUI also comprises a grid displaying non-selec... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100229122 | Floating Action Buttons A user interface (UI) includes floating action buttons. Respective hot zones are established for associated respective UI elements. When a focus is targeting (e.g., located at) a given hot zone, one or more floating action buttons that are associated therewith are prese... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100198835 | Annotating Content With Context Metadata A method of annotating content with context metadata comprising:
| 08/05/2010 |
| 20100192097 | METHODS FOR SHOWING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS IN AN APPLICATION In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving user input requesting display of information associated with user interface elements displayed on a page; analyzing the page for determining the information associated with the user interface elements; and outputting the i... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100192100 | Method for operating a space menu and electronic device with operating space menu A method for operating a space menu, suitable for an electronic device having a screen is provided. In the present method, a plurality of item objects are sequentially displayed along a linear path on a menu plane to generate a space menu. Then, an operation of a user f... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100169834 | INPUTTING APPARATUS An inputting apparatus including: a display unit on which an image is displayed; a detecting portion configured to detect an approach value which represents an approaching or a touching degree of an input object with respect to each position in the display unit and whic... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169833 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING APPARATUS An X-ray imaging apparatus includes a touch panel monitor configured to provide an operation unit and a display unit for imaged image on the same screen. The apparatus displays a plurality of buttons corresponding to a plurality of imaging methods, and displays with a f... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100146446 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING CONTENTS LIST Disclosed is a method and apparatus for displaying a contents list. The method includes: displaying a loading image, which is preset for displaying, on a loading region to display a thumbnail image corresponding to contents of the loading image, wherein the loading imag... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100146445 | Ambient Noise Based Augmentation of Media Playback Ambient noise sampled by a mobile device from a local environment is used to automatically trigger actions associated with content currently playing on the mobile device. In some implementations, subtitles or closed captions associated with the currently playing content... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100107120 | Painting user controls The described implementations relate to dynamically painting user-controls. One method dynamically determines a highlight color of a user-control under a cursor on a graphical user-interface. The method also paints at least a portion of the user-control with the highlig... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100083177 | Using tags with operator interface panels The invention describes use of tags in an operator interface panels. The tags are descriptive names of variables used in the panel. The use of tags allows a user to use meaningful names to the variables used with the objects on the panel.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100077352 | System And Method For Redistributing Interest In A Hierarchical Data Structure Representation A system and method for redistributing interest in a hierarchical data structure representation is provided. A data representation of a hierarchical data structure includes depth levels having one or more blocks of sibling nodes associated with node interest characteris... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100064255 | CONTEXTUAL MENUS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method for displaying menus of selectable options to a user are provided. The menus may include options that are contextually related to a current mode of the device to provide relevant options to a user. The electronic device modes may include, for example... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100005391 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM Additional information indicating photographic conditions for a received image signal is compared with additional information indicating photographic conditions for an access target image signal. If the both conditions satisfy a predetermined relationship, an access to ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090292690 | Method and System for Automatic Event Administration and Viewing This is a method and system for automated calendar event creation from unstructured text, with assisted administration and viewing.... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090271724 | VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS IN A UNIFIED INTEREST LAYER A user-activatable dashboard (also referred to as a unified interest layer) contains any number of user interface elements, referred to herein as “widgets,” for quick access by a user. In response to a command from a user, the dashboard is invoked and the widgets ar... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271737 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GRAPHICALLY EMPHASIZING A PATH THROUGH A DIAGRAM Methods and systems for graphically emphasizing a selected path through a diagram, where the diagram includes a number of nodes and a number of lines, the methods and systems including: applying a node highlight effect to a node of the number of nodes in the selected pa... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271738 | METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR THE GRAPHICAL PRESENTATION OF MEDICAL DATA In a method and a device for the implementation of a medical examination via a user interface of at least one imaging device determination and input of a group of measurement parameters take place via an input device of the user interface. Spatially resolved image infor... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090259636 | Facilitating Display Of An Interactive And Dynamic Cloud Of Terms Related To One Or More Input Terms According to certain embodiments, facilitating display of terms includes facilitating display of a graphical user interface. One or more first input terms entered into a user entry window of the graphical user interface are received. One or more first output terms relat... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090222757 | Automatic generation of TV history list A television system presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list that meets one of a set of History list criteria. The History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which t... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090210823 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING UNREAD ELECTRONIC MESSAGES The presence of new unread electronic messages received, that is, messages received since unread messages were last reviewed, is provided by indicia presented to the user. These indicia can take various forms, such as by bolding, flashing, changing the size or color of ... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090113342 | User-Configured Management of IM Availability Status Communicating an Instant Messaging (IM) user's availability status message is managed by a user-defined shortcut command, which is used to generate a user-drafted status response. When the user receives an instant message at an inopportune time, the user inputs the user... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090100378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALTERNATIVELY COMMUNICATING WITH AN IM CONTACT USING ADDRESS BOOK VERBS A system and method for alternatively communicating with an Instant Messaging (IM) contact from an IM application using address book verbs is provided. In an IM application, a context sensitive menu of options is presented to permit a user to invoke alternative communic... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090083660 | System and Method for Displaying Information Using a Compass A system and method displays a compass control with a map or other image. The compass control displays locations that may be displayed on the map, as well as locations that are outside of the map area being displayed, to allow the user to view such locations and interac... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20080307358 | HIGHLIGHTING RELATED USER INTERFACE CONTROLS Highlighting related user interface controls to selected items improves the ease of use and the intuitiveness of a graphical user interface. In preferred embodiments, user interface controls that are related to a selected object in the display are uniquely highlighted w... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080178082 | Device with Highlighted Menu The invention relates to a device (1) with an interaction dependent user interface (2). Particularly a value of a parameter of an object (5) of the interface is dependent of the user activities, i.e. an object of the interface behaves differently in... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080072177 | Cascade menu lock The present invention is directed to a cascade menu lock for locking a normally closed cascade menu in the open state. Various levels of a cascade menu can be locked in the open state using a lock shortcut key or other user input. Unconstrained cursor movement is then p... | 03/20/2008 |
