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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131509 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF UTILIZING BACKGROUND IMAGE OF PORTABLE TERMINAL A method of utilizing a background image of a portable terminal, and a portable terminal for implementing the method, are provided. The method includes displaying the background image, determining whether an input event is detected in the displayed background image, ide... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131510 | Location Based Tracking Location information is used to build a database of locations having associated audio, video, image or text data. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and collects data associated with a geographic location of interest. The geographic loc... | 05/24/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120110512 | INTEGRATED CONTENT GUIDE FOR INTERACTIVE SELECTION OF CONTENT AND SERVICES ON PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE SOURCES AND MULTIPLE MEDIA PRESENTATION A integrated content guide for multiple sources is provided with hyper-text type links to allow for the selection of various programs. The hyper-text links are provided for a transmitted and then stored digital bit stream. This allows for the embedding within the conten... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109948 | Process and Apparatus for Selecting an Item From a Database The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting database items from a database, where the database items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is generated which includes one ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110511 | INTEGRATING USER INTERFACES An external interface to a portable device that has its own native interface is provided. The native interface of the portable device presents options of a first level of a hierarchy, and upon selection of a first one of the options, replaces the display of options with... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084690 | GESTURE BASED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT Methods and apparatus for controlling one or more displays using an application manager. The application manager may be displayed in response to a received gesture input. The application manager may provide information regarding applications or screens executing in one ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084689 | Managing Items in a User Interface User interface changes related to moving items in a user interface are disclosed. An operation (e.g., a drag operation) can be initiated on selected items by moving a cursor or pointing device in the user interface, and an animation can be presented illustrating represe... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084731 | DISPLAYING IMAGES INTERESTING TO A USER One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for displaying images in a user's online page, such as to provide an engaging and interesting user experience. A subset of one or more images is identified from a set that comprises user accessible images. Images for t... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120054686 | COMPOSITE ATTRIBUTE CONTROL METHOD AND PORTABLE DEVICE THEREOF Provided is a method for controlling a composite attribute of a portable device, including receiving an input signal for controlling a composite attribute, checking an application program activated according to the reception of the input signal, and checking at least on... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046859 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH SCALABLE MAP INTERFACE FOR ZONE BASED ENERGY MANAGEMENT According to an aspect of the disclosure, a mobile energy management system includes controlling at least one network device at a site using the proximity detection of a mobile device based upon the detection of a plurality of zones. Various features may be presented on... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047146 | VISUAL AID TO ASSIST MAKING PURCHASE BY TRACKING KEY PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS The present invention is directed to methods and systems for assisting users in an ecommerce environment. The method includes displaying a user interface of including products. Each of the products have associated attributes. Each of the associated attributes are displa... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040724 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION SETTING OF MOBILE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF A method for controlling communication setting of a mobile terminal, includes: outputting a communication setting widget indicating an operational state of at least one data communication function associated with the mobile terminal; receiving a signal for changing the ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042285 | Item Switching Method, Man-Machine Interface and Cordless Phone Handset An item switching method for a man-machine interface having a plurality of objects includes generating a stack list for recording selecting information related to the plurality of objects, receiving a command for selecting an object from the plurality of objects, and de... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042286 | Graphical Computer Application Recall System and Method A method for recalling application programs in a computer having a memory includes accepting a first user input for indicating a program configuration of application programs running on the computer and storing the program configuration in the memory in association an i... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036476 | MULTIDIRECTIONAL EXPANSION CURSOR AND METHOD FOR FORMING A MULTIDIRECTIONAL EXPANSION CURSOR A multidirectional expansion cursor and method of implementing the same are provided. The multidirectional expansion cursor displayed on a display screen and moved under input control of a user includes selection keys, wherein the selection keys are displayed on the dis... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030628 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE AND TOUCH-BASED FOLDER CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A touch-sensitive device has a touch-based input interface and includes a touch-based folder control for creating, moving or arranging folders in response to an input of a touch-based user interaction. The touch-sensitive device receives an input from a touch-based user... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030629 | VISUAL BROWSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A visual browsing method allows a user to look at an item closely by hovering over, instead of clicking on, an icon representing the item. The method also enables the user to browse items in different levels of a multiple level category without waiting for web pages to ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030627 | EXECUTION AND DISPLAY OF APPLICATIONS Apparatus comprises at least one processor, at least one memory including computer program code, where the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to store an identifier associate... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030566 | SYSTEM WITH TOUCH-BASED SELECTION OF DATA ITEMS Computing equipment may display data items in a list on a touch screen display. The computing equipment may use the touch screen display to detect touch gestures. A user may select a data item using a touch gesture such as a tap gesture. In response, the computing equip... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030567 | SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUAL DASHBOARD AND DROPBOARD FEATURES A user may select content that has been displayed. The selected content may be provided to multiple applications as input in response to detection of a user command such as a touch gesture. The applications may be widgets that are displayed in respective application reg... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023451 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCREEN CONTROL METHOD THAT DISPLAYS A LIST SCREEN An image forming apparatus includes an arrangement information memory to store icon arrangement information in which entries respectively corresponding to standard applications and extension applications are provided, and in which application identification information ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016763 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PRESCRIPTION SAFETY EYEWEAR A system and an apparatus for an employer to provide safety prescription eyewear to employees is described. The steps of the preferred embodiment comprise providing a kiosk at or near a place of employment, allowing employees to access the kiosk virtually to try on vari... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017181 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM A method of controlling an image processing apparatus communicating with an image server storing first images, second images wherein one of the first images and one of the second images are managed as one image data in the image server. The method includes downloading a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017178 | FILE MANAGEMENT AND TRANSFER USING A REMORA A user device to receive a request to open an application associated with a file; retrieve information regarding a remora user interface (UI) associated with the application via which operations on the file are automatically performed, where the information regarding th... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011471 | REAL ESTATE VALUE MAP COMPUTER SYSTEM A computer system creates and displays a map image based upon a value database associating a plurality of values each with a geographic location in a geographic area and a map program associating each location with a map image location. The computer system assigns one o... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320479 | COLLECTIONS FOR STORAGE ARTIFACTS OF A TREE STRUCTURED REPOSITORY ESTABLISHED VIA ARTIFACT METADATA At least one unique collection of storage artifacts can be specified to indicate that the storage artifact is a member of the unique collection. Each storage artifact can be a discrete object comprising digitally encoded content that is stored as a node within a tree st... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A TO-DO ITEM BASED ON SELECTION OF A FUNCTION TO BE PERFORMED BY AN APPLICATION An apparatus may include a to-do item creator configured to create a to-do item based on selection of a function to be performed by an application using an operational characteristic. An application multi-tasking module may allow for multi-tasking of applications as wel... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVATING AN APPLICATION ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method and system for activating an application on a portable electronic device are disclosed. A method of activating an application on a portable electronic device includes displaying a plurality of elements on a display device of the portable electronic device, wher... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314422 | USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR OBJECT MANAGEMENT A computing device includes a processor executing instructions to provide a graphical user interface displayed on a display device and for facilitating navigation through a collection of files stored in a storage device, the user interface including a primary icon displ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314369 | SPECIFYING AND PROCESSING COMPOSED PATTERNS A method, computer program product, and system for specifying and processing composed patterns are described. A method may comprise receiving, by a pattern process executing on a computing device, a first pattern definition comprising one or more outputs. The method may... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307792 | ACCESSING ELEMENTS IN AN OPERATING SYSTEM Providing access to an element in an operating system executed by a processor includes: with the processor, tracking behavior of a user with respect to multiple elements managed by the operating system; displaying a tag cloud to the user with a display device, the tag c... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307804 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD Embodiments of the invention relate to the creation of electronic message handling rules and to the creation of groups of electronic message recipient addresses. An automatic creation of electronic message rules or filters is dynamically based upon routine user actions ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307505 | Method and System for Handwriting-Based Launch of an Application Methods and systems for providing navigation assistance on a mobile device are provided. A method may include analyzing handwriting data to recognize one or more objects depicted in the handwriting data. The method may further include determining if one or more applicat... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307833 | Control Selection Approximation A method includes displaying a user interface of an application on a device's touch-sensitive display. The user interface includes a plurality of regions, including a respective region at a respective hierarchy level. The respective region has two or more child regions ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110307810 | LIST INTEGRATION Various embodiments provide a mechanism to allow end users to install web applications and websites onto their desktop. In accordance with one or more embodiments, client-side code can be utilized to allow developers associated with a website to define boundaries associ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307832 | Graphical Multidimensional File Management System and Method A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing computer-readable code thereon that provides, when executed by a computer, a method for displaying a plurality of information elements on a display is hereby provided, the method comprising displaying a ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296346 | ACTION TOOL BAR FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for dynamically providing a tool bar in a user interface is provided. The method includes determining at least one action that is commonly performed based on data displayed on a current page of a graphical user ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110279415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A USER INTERFACE FOR A DEVICE EMPLOYING WRITTEN GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS A method and system for implementing a user interface for a device through user created graphical elements. The method includes recognizing a graphical element icon created by a user. Once recognized, a function related to the graphical element icon is accessed and an o... | 11/17/2011 |
