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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131512 | DISPLAYING POSTS IN REAL TIME ALONG AXES ON A COMPUTER SCREEN Sequentially displaying posts apart from each other on a computer screen, including prompting a user to input a dimension element including one or more of a character, graphic, or symbol on the computer screen; identifying posts containing one or more dimension elements... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130779 | Content-Aware Insertion of Advertisements within a Graphical Framebuffer or Present Surface A system and method are disclosed for managing the display of graphical content within a user interface window of a display. A first set of messaging content data is processed to render a first set of graphics data in a target area of the display. The presence of a seco... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120042287 | EMPHASIS-ADDING SYSTEM AND EMPHASIS-ADDING METHOD A display part is provided with a display screen with a horizontal axis representing a time and a vertical axis representing an amount of modulation and a pre-emphasis waveform image is displayed on the display screen. In the pre-emphasis waveform image, a cursor can be... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120023427 | USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING CONSOLIDATION AND ACCESS Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. To provide greater access and consolidation to frequently used items in the graphical user interface, a userbar is established which includes a plurality of item representations. To permit a grea... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120011445 | Remote Computing With A Low Latency Mouse Mode A client computing device that includes a client desktop having at least one window that is controlled by a server computing device receives a cursor message from a pointing device. The client computing device moves a cursor from an initial position to a new position on... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011280 | Method And System For Transforming Cursor Graphics Information A client computing device receives cursor graphics information from a server computing device. The client computing device transforms the cursor graphics information from a received format to a new format supported by the client computing device. The client computing de... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005593 | CARE LABEL METHOD FOR A SELF SERVICE DASHBOARD CONSTRUCTION Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interfaces and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for graphically labeling widgets in a mashup dashboard. In an embodiment of the invention, ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110296352 | ACTIVE CALIBRATION OF A NATURAL USER INTERFACE A system and method are disclosed for periodically calibrating a user interface in a NUI system by performing periodic active calibration events. The system includes a capture device for capturing position data relating to objects in a field of view of the capture devic... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289461 | Method and sytem for rendering computer interface cursors A processor-controlled system and method implementing a process for morphing a cursor tool between various states comprising the steps of displaying a cursor tool in a first state that includes a functionality and visual parameters with values, determining a second stat... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110276925 | Presentation of Information Describing User Activities with Regard to Resources A resource reference is detected in a base resource, such as a web page or an email message. The resource reference refers to a target resource, such as another webpage or another email message. An appropriate activity-based resource type for the resource reference is t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276926 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING USER COMMAND ACCORDING TO SPATIAL MOVEMENT OF USER INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE APPARATUS THEREOF A method for executing a user command based on spatial movement of a user input device and an image apparatus having the same are provided. According to the method for executing a user command, a user command which is determined based on the spatial movement of the user... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270922 | MANAGING PARTICIPANTS IN A CONFERENCE VIA A CONFERENCE USER INTERFACE Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for managing participants in an online conference via a graphical user interface. One such method comprises: displaying a conference interface via a graphical user interface on a client device ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110252358 | MOTION CONTROL OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE Methods and devices for using motion to control a portable electronic device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of using movement to control a portable electronic device, the portable electronic device having a housing containing a display and a sensor, the meth... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110239165 | System and Method for Using a Cursor to Convey Information Methods and systems are provided for the controlled cursor's behavior. According to one example method, any desired data may be linked to a cursor and a desired cursor behavior could be defined to convey the linked data using the cursor. When a change in the linked data... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239153 | POINTER TOOL WITH TOUCH-ENABLED PRECISE PLACEMENT A pointer tool in a touch-screen display is disclosed. The method includes activating a pointer tool in a touch screen display in response to contact with an area of the touch screen and persisting the displaying of the pointer tool in the touch screen display after the... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110209096 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM An input device includes a pointer movement control unit that controls movement of a pointer to select a component in a GUI represented spatially on a two dimensional screen based on a user operation, and a movement direction setting unit that sets a direction of moveme... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202887 | Automatically Suggesting Graphical Program Elements for Inclusion in a Graphical Program System and method for editing a graphical program. One or more nodes are included in a graphical program in response to user input selecting the one or more nodes, where each node has a respective one or more terminals for receiving input to or providing output from the... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202835 | ITEM SELECTION METHOD FOR TOUCH SCREEN DEVICES A user device may display content items in a content area on a touch screen display of the user device. The user device detects a touching of the touch screen display and determines a location of the touching. The user device divides the content area into a first conten... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202889 | ENHANCED ROLL-OVER, BUTTON, MENU, SLIDER, AND HYPERLINK ENVIRONMENTS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HTPD), OTHER ADVANCED TOUCH USER INTERFACES, AND ADVANCED MICE A hypermedia object associated with an application, displayed on a display screen, and responsive to information is disclosed. The information is provided by a user interface input device having two-dimensional pointing functions and at least one additional user-adjusta... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187725 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided a communication control device including: a data storage unit storing feature data representing features of appearances of one or more communication devices; an environment map building unit for building an environment map representing positions of com... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191344 | AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION OF BROWSING HISTORIES An automatic organization into topics for a browsing history. In one embodiment, a system identifies groups of browsing actions as related, and clusters the browsing history (e.g. a web browsing history) into sessions based on heuristics used to determine relationships.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187641 | COMPUTER POINTING DEVICE WITH MACRO FUNCTIONALITY A computer pointing device is adapted for use with a computer to control position of a cursor on a screen. The computer pointing device includes a casing, a macro key mounted operably on the casing, a storage medium disposed in the casing and storing a macro command, an... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191723 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A CURSOR ON A MULTI-TOUCH SCREEN BY USING ON-DEVICE OPERATION A method of controlling a cursor on a screen by using a touch device includes changing a display coordinate set of the cursor on the screen representative of an object according to a relative coordinate set with respect to movement of the object on the touch device, hid... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110173573 | METHOD FOR INPUTTING A CHARACTER IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL Disclosed is a character input method, by which it is possible to input a character through one touch-and-drag action. The method includes displaying a predetermined character at a location of a cursor on a display area when a predetermined character is selected in a se... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173572 | METHOD AND INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING LOCATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ANNOTATIONS Methods, systems and computer program products for displaying geographical locations with the one or more annotations. In a particular embodiment, a language model is used to obtain the probability distribution of the locations over one or more annotations. Further, the... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173571 | Graphical User Interface Guide A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed. The GUI includes a menu bar to display one or more menus, a GUI guide button and a GUI guide to simultaneously display commands in each of the one or more menus in response to a selection of the GUI guide button.... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110161888 | Operation direction determination apparatus, remote operating system, operation direction determination method and program There is provided an apparatus including a touch panel for detecting a moving start point and a moving end point of a pointer, a first determination unit for, while an apparatus is being gripped with a first hand, determining whether the apparatus is being one-handedly ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110134042 | NAVIGATION TOOL INCLUDING INDUCTION FUNCTIONALITY There is provided a handheld electronic device including a support structure, a display, a navigation tool assembly and a coil. The display is located on a front face of the device and upon which graphical user interface information is displayed to the user of the devic... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134322 | Dynamic Television Menu Creation Output useable to select a desired communication channel from among multiple communication channels in a plurality of channel categories is provided by way of a remote control device. A user accomplishes this by selecting, in place of a displayed icon that is to be “u... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110138355 | HANDLING USER-INTERFACE GESTURES IN NON-RECTANGULAR REGIONS A technique for handling user-interface gestures in non-rectangular regions of a graphical user interface includes creating a class comprising an event handler for an onmouseover event and an event handler for an onmouseout event. The technique further includes adding e... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110131525 | VISUALIZATION AND INFORMATION DISPLAY FOR SHAPES IN DISPLAYED GRAPHICAL IMAGES BASED ON USER ZONE OF FOCUS Graphical viewing of shapes and descriptive information in displayed graphical images. In one aspect, shape information is displayed in a graphical interface using a computer system and includes causing a display of an image and one or more shapes in the image, and caus... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110119636 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE GUI USE EFFICIENCY A method and system to facilitate manipulation of the pointer on a screen displaying application windows when the applications use logical barriers to block the movement of the pointer in a window area. The GUI computes new pointer coordinates on the screen of an applic... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109646 | Cursor for Application of Image Adjustments Systems and techniques are disclosed for applying an effect to a digital image using a cursor. An effect can be applied to an image at a region under a cursor. The cursor has an outer periphery and an effect indicating periphery within the outer periphery. The outer per... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113387 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF There is provided a display control apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to designate a position on a display screen; a display control unit configured to control to identifiably display a set region set on the display screen; and a control unit configured to ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113388 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURITY MANAGEMENT BASED ON CURSOR EVENTS Systems and methods for security management based on cursor events. Click coordinates on a webpage of user's activity are logged in order to detect multiple or repeated transactions that bare the same exact coordinates. Such multiple or repeated activity may be helpful ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110107275 | METHOD OF TESTING A CURSOR INTERACTIVE WITH A POINTING DEVICE ON A DISPLAYING DEVICE A method of testing a cursor interactive with a pointing device on a displaying device includes pointing at a position on a displaying device by the pointing device within a predetermined period, identifying whether a movement of the cursor makes any change correspondin... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110099474 | Method and System for Providing Software Application End-Users with Contextual Access to Text and Video Instructional Information A tool data engine displays instructional information to an end-user of a software application that pertains to one or more tools associated with the software application. The tool data engine displays the instructional information within a graphical user interface (GUI... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093374 | Systems and Methods of an Interface for use in Electronic Trading Various systems and methods for presenting and interacting with electronic trading related information on a display screen of a computer system are provided. According to one or more embodiments, buttons are positioned and compressed along an axis, where each button cor... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110093819 | ZEROCLICK A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below, A G... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110080341 | Indirect Multi-Touch Interaction Indirect multi-touch interaction is described. In an embodiment, a user interface is controlled using a cursor and a touch region comprising a representation of one or more digits of a user. The cursor and the touch region are moved together in the user interface in acc... | 04/07/2011 |
