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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110515 | USER INTERFACE FOR A DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A graphical user interface and digital content processor for the management of digital data. The graphical user interface is characterized by two treeview controls capable of transforming the screen display of items under management by acting as a filtering mechanism fo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072872 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF HIERARCHY SCREEN REFRESHES Systems and methods consistent with certain embodiments of the invention relate to optimization of hierarchy screen refreshes in a graphical user interface. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for refreshing a graphical user interface that includes a navigat... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053986 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA VISUALIZATION AND RELATED APPLICATIONS A computer implemented method of analyzing and graphically representing the correlation of a plurality of transaction items, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving data associated with groups of the transaction items, correlating a plurality of groups of transac... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054691 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING SHARED FRIENDS OF INDIVIDUALS An apparatus for providing a user-friendly and efficient manner to determine one or more shared friends of individuals may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120036324 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REVISITING PRIOR NAVIGATED PAGES AND PRIOR EDITS A system and method for navigating or editing may include storing multiple forward or redo stacks and a single back or undo stack. The forward or undo stacks may include separate stacks for each page from which navigation occurs to a page of lower hierarchical level or ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030631 | TREE CONTROL WITH ENHANCED HIERARCHY VISIBILITY A hierarchical display system is described herein that provides an indication of a node's hierarchical position in a tree of nodes regardless of a user's present viewing position within a tree control or similar user interface control. Rather than displaying only the cu... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120011475 | INFORMATION DISPLAY A system and method for a computer implemented display of information organizes a visual screen display to a user in such a way that the user is able to efficiently select information content, and then be presented with topical associations relating to that content. The... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005228 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING AND DISPLAYING MULTI DIMENSIONAL DATA A method and system for navigating a tree type data structure having multiple data fields with data records arranged in multi dimension is disclosed herein. The method comprises: obtaining a search query to navigate plurality of records in the data structure wherein the... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005631 | TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAY OF INFORMATION RELATED TO POLICIES Techniques for displaying information. Policy violations are identified, based at least in part on data stored in a data store. For the policy violations, a plurality of semantic objects related to the violations are identified. Arrangements of graphical objects are dis... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110314041 | COMMUNITY AUTHORING CONTENT GENERATION AND NAVIGATION One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for creating socially authored, or community authored, summaries of documents and/or for navigating a forum comprising such summaries. In one embodiment, at least some of the summaries are generated automatically when a... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307839 | Implementing website navigation Implementing website navigation includes deriving a confidence level for at least one leaf node of a website navigation category diagram using historical user operation data; generating one or more navigation hierarchical structure diagrams based on the website navigati... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307838 | FAST EDGE ROUTING FOR INTERACTIVE DIAGRAMMING An edge routing system is described herein that uses a spatial decomposition to achieve faster routing, and more quickly generates a sparse visibility graph using a cone spanner. The system provides two approaches that can be used separately or in combination to achieve... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296354 | Content-Driven Navigation Solutions for providing intuitive, content-driven navigation through communications and multimedia services offered through, e.g., a user supersystem as a communications hub. For example, in some implementations, various data flows are traversed to move between applicat... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296351 | User Interface with Z-axis Interaction and Multiple Stacks A user interface presents a plurality of items configured as a stack in a display of a device. The stack is scrollable in a direction oblique to a plane of the display for successively viewing the items in the stack. Some implementations provide multiple stacks of items... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296507 | Providing an Electronic Document Collection In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to access an electronic document collection that integrates a plurality of electronic sub-documents that are each of one of a plurality of defined document types. The method also includes ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295760 | BENEFITS ENROLMENT IN AN ENTERPRISE Simplifying benefits enrollment in an organization using an enterprise software. A benefits administrator configures plan instances as groups, and the user interface for (enrolling) end users is controlled according to the configuration. The plan instances are displayed... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289392 | System and method for monitoring changes in databases and websites A system and method is described for constructing a differential web in which information including objects, numbers, or text in databases and web pages may be selected using pointing device movements. Once selected, objects may be designated to be monitored for changes... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289460 | HIERARCHICAL DISPLAY OF CONTENT Hierarchical display of content. A hierarchical tree structure has nodes that correspond to queries. A static visual representation of a node that is in a top level of the hierarchical tree structure is displayed such that it is selectable by a user. In response to sele... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289408 | MENU PATH TRACKING AND DISPLAY OF PATH STEPS A wireless handset and method that allows selection and display of steps from a path of commands is described. More particularly, the wireless handset comprises a processor, a display, a first directory, a first-level subdirectory, and a navigation tracking list. The pr... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289459 | Orbital Representation of Hierarchical Navigation Hierarchical structures are visualized and navigated using an orbital model. Sibling nodes are orbitally displayed in a generally circular arrangement along an orbital path. Choosing one of the orbitally displayed nodes opens it, moving down in the hierarchy. Nodes whic... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110276906 | NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION USER INTERFACE A navigational information display panel is provided for presenting information associated with a location and relationship of a particular web page in context of hierarchical nodes above the web page. The panel may be displayed at a fixed or movable location upon activ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271230 | Visualization and navigation system for complex data and discussion platform A visualization and navigation technology for complex data sets supports interactive engagement which can result in changes of data in the data sets is suitable for applications providing discussion platforms. A sequence of representations of the node-link structure is ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271234 | CUSTOMIZABLE BRANCH NAVIGATIONAL AREA CONTROL The invention provides customizable branch navigational area control. Navigational area branches are displayed on a device. Expansion of the navigational area branches is controlled. Selection is accepted for particular navigational area branches. The selected particula... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264698 | METHOD FOR GUIDING OPERATION OF APPLICATION PROGRAM, MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM USING THE METHOD THEREOF A method for guiding an operation of an application program, a mobile electronic device, and a computer program product using the method thereof are provided. In the invention, a description page with a plurality of links of an operation guide is opened. An operation in... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110239164 | BREADCRUMB NAVIGATION THROUGH HEIRARCHICAL STRUCTURES A viewer may be used to navigate through diagrammatic views of hierarchically structured documents. Expansion and collapse controls may be used to show or hide details regarding a particular node in the hierarchy. Furthermore breadcrumb navigation may be employed to sho... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225552 | POLY VECTORAL REVERSE NAVIGATION This invention includes a method of navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list and displaying first node and context list. Each context of the context collection includes a second node essentially referencing the first node. An... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110214080 | Taxonomy Editor This patent application relates to taxonomy editing. One implementation involves a taxonomy editor configured to generate a visual representation of a taxonomy associated with a set of scientific papers. The taxonomy editor includes a properties module configured to ide... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110209079 | GRAPHICAL DISPLAY WITH HIERARCHICAL GAUGE PLACEMENT A graphical display is provided to allow a user to dynamically customize the location, appearance, priority, and arrangement of virtual gauges displayed on an instrument panel of a vehicle. A user can select a virtual gauge and move to a desired location in the instrume... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110209095 | DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE A display system provides a graphical user interface having a dynamic display field, which is contained within a useable display area. The dynamic display field can have an expanded state and collapsed state, and the current state of the dynamic display field can depend... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110179390 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TRAVERSING NODES IN PATH ON A DISPLAY DEVICE Methods and systems are described for traversing nodes in path on a display device. In one aspect methods and systems include, detecting a first navigation input from a user. Determining a first path including a first plurality of nodes in a hierarchy. In response to th... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110179368 | 3D View Of File Structure A file structure or data hierarchy can be navigated using 3D gesture inputs. For example, objects can be arranged in a plurality of layers. A user input, including a 3D gesture input having a movement in proximity to a display surface can be detected. Different layers c... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110167390 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING AN INFORMATION UNIT TO PROVIDE NAVIGATION FEATURES ON A DEVICE The present invention relates to a system and method for interacting with digital media that permits creating, editing, combining, producing, and using digital media content. In one aspect of the invention, these features are implemented using a “virtual container” ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161882 | USER INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS FOR MEDIA CONTENT ACCESS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Exemplary user interface enhancements for media content access systems and methods are described herein. An exemplary method includes a media content access system launching a graphical user interface for display, the graphical user interface initially including a graph... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161887 | Providing Application Look-Ahead in a State-Based Application Framework A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing navigation assistance within a user interface. A request for look-ahead navigation assistance is received and the user's current location within the application is determined. Application state dat... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154253 | PROCESS FIELD EXTENSIBILITY FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS A system and method for creating extension fields for business objects are described. In various embodiments, a system includes modules to display business processes and business objects thereof in graphical user interface screens. In various embodiments, the system pro... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110154265 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING BUILDING RESOURCES Described herein are systems and methods for modeling building resources. In overview, building resources are represented by points defined in an information system. These points are defined in a manner so as to allow the generation of a hierarchical structure on their ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145760 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EDITING A PRODUCT ASSEMBLY The present invention provides a computer implemented method for editing a product. The product comprises three-dimensional modeled objects. The method comprises the step of displaying a three-dimensional representation of a hierarchy of the three-dimensional modeled ob... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138339 | SMART TREE NAVIGATION Described herein are methods and systems for smart tree navigation. According to one aspect, the user inputs in the form of node interaction events are tracked to determine preferred nodes that can be used to guide a user's navigation in the future. In another aspect, t... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110138340 | Rotating Hierarchy Cone User Interface A user interface for business applications provides users a navigable top-down view of a hierarchical structure through a rotating hierarchy cone. The cone presents a partial view of a circularly organized hierarchy of parent and child nodes enabling users to view detai... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110119634 | GLOBAL VIEW FOR DIGITAL ASSETS Processes and systems are presented, for generating and displaying a flat all-projects view of a library of digital assets. In one aspect, a process includes receiving input from a user of the application requesting to view content accessible by the application. The acc... | 05/19/2011 |
