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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120084729 | PROACTIVE BROWSING METHOD WITH SWING GESTURE IN FREE SPACE The method provides a browsing environment for a user in a free space through proactive interface design and dragging-style operation gesture. The method contains the following steps. First, an interface is provided, which contains a number of selection items. Then, an ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120023447 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of displayed content from a user. An obtaining unit is configured to obtain data corresponding to the select... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017147 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTING WITH PROJECTED USER INTERFACE Aspect methods and systems enable interaction with projected user interface through user input gestures performed on a mobile device. The mobile device may project the user interface image on an external surface, such as from a pico projector, and detect user input gest... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017175 | MANAGEMENT OF SELECTED AND NONSELECTED ITEMS IN A LIST A method includes, in response to items being selected in a graphical user interface, defining a first state for the items as selected items and a second state for a set of one or more unselected items in the list as unselected. The method includes graphically indicatin... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005626 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A WEB SEARCH VIA A CLIENT-SIDE MODULE Disclosed is a method and system for providing to a user rapid access to search resources while interacting with electronic documents by providing for recognition of user initiated search triggers that result in searches being performed with minimal user input or page n... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320978 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TOUCHSCREEN GESTURE RECOGNITION OVERLAY Methods and devices provide a user interface featuring a gesture recognition overlay suitable for the small display of a mobile device equipped with a touchscreen user input/display. Such a gesture recognition overlay functionality may enable users to enter alphanumeric... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314421 | Access to Touch Screens A method for activating objects displayed on a touch screen by using a finger of a user. The method includes the steps of displaying one or more objects on the touch screen, detecting an activation event of a specific one of the one or more objects caused by the user to... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307831 | User-Controlled Application Access to Resources A host application on a computing device displays an icon or other visual representation of a resource of the computing device, and receives a request from one of one or more applications hosted by the host application. The request is a request to access the resource re... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307499 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING PATENT RELATED DOCUMENTS Methods and systems are disclosed that analyze patent-related documents having at least one property type. In one implementation, a method involves displaying, in a first graphical element, identifiers of the patent-related documents. The method also involves analyzing ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302532 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Navigating Through a User Interface Using a Dynamic Object Selection Indicator A device that is in communication with a display and a touch-sensitive surface sends instructions to the display for displaying at least a portion of a user interface, the user interface having one or more selectable objects. The device receives an input that correspond... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110264463 | ACTIVITY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD The activity notification process includes a first step of selecting an activity center on a home screen of a home station. The home screen of the home station has a plurality of selectable activity center choices, the selection thereof generating a plurality of selecta... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110265038 | FILTERING DATA ENTRIES ON MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES HAVING AUXILIARY INPUT DEVICES A method of filtering data entries on a mobile device includes displaying a list of data entries on a display device of the mobile device. An indication of one of the data entries of the list is received at one of an input device and an auxiliary input device. Highlight... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258583 | Processing execution program product and processing execution apparatus A computer readable computer program product containing a processing execution program, the processing execution program includes: an area display instruction to display, in correlation to data displayed on a screen, a selection area to be operated by a user for selecti... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258584 | Searching for Commands and Other Elements of a User Interface The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a menu command or other user interface element associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field. A list of results... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252316 | TRANSLATING TEXT ON A SURFACE COMPUTING DEVICE A system described herein includes an acquirer component that acquires an electronic document that comprises text in a first language, wherein the acquirer component acquires the electronic document based at least in part upon a physical object comprising the text conta... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252368 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Navigation of Multiple Applications A method a multifunction device with a touch-sensitive display includes: detecting a first user input on a first application icon on the display; in response to detecting the first user input: activating and displaying a first application associated with the first appli... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110250966 | USER INTERFACE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROCESSING USER INTERFACE, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING USER INTERFACE Spotlight information that contains at least coordinate information indicating a coordinate at which an object is positioned is generated in accordance with a selection operation for selecting the object. A spotlight screen, including a spotlight illuminating region for... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246194 | Indicia to indicate a dictation application is capable of receiving audio A client station having access to an application is provided. The application has at least one indicia having a first configuration and a second configuration different from the first configuration. The second configuration indicating the application is able to accept i... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246876 | PRECISE MEASUREMENT ON A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE In an embodiment, precise measurement on a mobile computing device is facilitated with a computer comprising one or more processors; a computer readable storage medium comprising a sequence of instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the on... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243525 | Multimedia control center Techniques and systems for centralized access to multimedia content stored on or available to a computing device are disclosed. The centralized access can be provided by a media control interface that receives user inputs and interacts with media programs resident on th... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239115 | SELECTING AN AVATAR ON A DISPLAY SCREEN OF A MOBILE DEVICE Disclosed are techniques that allow the user of a mobile device to select an avatar within a virtual world presented on the display screen of the mobile device. In some embodiments, a user manipulates a thumbwheel. As the thumbwheel is turned, the avatars on the display... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231798 | DYNAMIC GRAPHIC INDICATOR FOR CONNECTED TASKS A dynamic diagram for a set of connected tasks comprises icons in a graphic user interface, each icon representing a task, including a first task, a last task, and at least one intermediate task, the at least one intermediate task having at least two connected tasks one... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225546 | MAP SPOTLIGHTS Various embodiments enable, in a mapping context, various regions containing points of interest to be spotlighted. In at least some embodiments, a map is displayed on a computing device and points of interest can be located on the map. One or more regions containing the... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110197150 | METHOD FOR CHECKING UPDATES OF REGIONS OF WEB PAGES When a web page is visited in a browser, the method automatically loads a tool bar so that a user could specify the visited web page to be tracked or one or more regions of the visited web page to be tracked (or excluded). Then, at the specified periods or instants, the... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110185309 | GESTURE-BASED USER INTERFACE The invention includes methods, systems, computer program products and means for providing an intuitive user interface for interacting with a game console that obviates the need for, or use of, a typical game controller. In one embodiment, the user interface comprises a... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110167016 | MAP-ASSISTED RADIO RATINGS ANALYSIS A radio station market analysis program displays a grid having radio station entries and associated attributes. A subset of the stations can be selected based on the attributes, and a map displays location markers corresponding to physical locations of stations in the s... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161880 | BROWSER BASED OBJECTS FOR COPYING AND SENDING OPERATIONS A disclosed method of transferring information between application programs on a mobile device may involve executing a browser application program on the mobile device to display a page containing one or more objects on a touch panel display; responsive to user touching... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110162084 | SELECTING PORTIONS OF COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE DOCUMENTS FOR POST-SELECTION PROCESSING Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identifi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method and apparatus includes an electronic device that displays 110 a plurality of members on a first portion of a display and receives 115 a first input on the first portion of the display, wherein the input selects a first member from the plurality of... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145763 | System and Method for Aggregating Multi-Protocol Flows for Network Monitoring A system and method for aggregating IP flows in a telecommunication network is disclosed. A multi-protocol flow representing packets captured from the telecommunications network during a selected time period is displayed on a user interface of a network monitoring syste... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110112665 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA PROGRAMS A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device, including a controller to: transmit a client program having a graphical user interface (GUI) to a media device operating in an interactive television (iTV) netwo... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113373 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display unit which displays an image; a user input unit which receives a user input; and a controller which controls the display unit to display a plurality of first icons c... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110107263 | System and Method for Using a Digital Inventory of Clothing A device includes a communication module and a display. The communication module is configured to communicate with a personal database and to receive a plurality of digital images associated with a respective piece of clothing and/or an outfit from the personal database... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110099520 | Motor Vehicle Operating Device A motor vehicle operating device has a display device, an operating element and a control device, which are mutually coupled and set up such that an operating element symbol that corresponds to the operating element with respect to its outline shape is displayed on the ... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110078109 | MINI-FORM VIEW FOR DATA RECORDS Methods, program products, and systems for mini-form view of data records are described. Each data records can be formatted according to a layout. The layout can define an arrangement of various data fields for display. To display multiple data records, an image can be ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078630 | SCROLLABLE CONTEXT MENU FOR MULTIPLE ELEMENT SELECTION Selections from a long list of elements on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) are presented. When a context window is presented for the selections, different cues are provided in the context window to provide feedback regarding the selections that are not in the current v... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110061006 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal and display controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes storing user registration information registered at each of one or more websites, receiving an input of a command signal for providing the user registration informatio... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110029866 | ORDER TAKING APPARATUS According to one embodiment an order taking apparatus includes a storage processing section, a display processing section, an enlargement processing section. The storage processing section configured to read information on the order for the menu item the input of which ... | 02/03/2011 |
