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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120022991 | Consolidated Price Level Expansion Certain embodiments provide consolidated price level expansion. Data associated with the individual price levels represented by a consolidated price level is expanded and provided through an expanded consolidated price level interface. In certain embodiments, the expand... | 01/26/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110302528 | Intelligent Window Sizing For Graphical User Interfaces A device displays a drop down detection area. When the computing device detects the presence of a cursor hovering over the drop down detection area, the computing device displays a tiling navigator on the display, which includes multiple window resizing options for a us... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110276918 | ONE STEP SELECTION OF DISABLED OPTIONS Information associated with an unavailable option is provided to a user upon detecting the user's interest in that option in a configuration environment or user interface control environment. The provided information may explain why the option is unavailable, what alter... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276921 | SELECTING CONTENT BASED ON INTEREST TAGS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN AN INTEREST CLOUD Techniques are described herein for selecting content based on interest tags that are included in an interest cloud. An interest cloud is a tag cloud that includes interest tags, which correspond to respective interests of a user. An interest of a user is subject matter... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110231793 | USER INTERFACE SELECTION MODES There is disclosed a method of controlling a user interface comprising the steps of: positioning a cursor over a displayed object and dragging the cursor; and determining a state of a mode of operation, wherein: in a first state, the object under the cursor is dragged w... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110209040 | EXPLICIT AND NON-EXPLICIT LINKS IN DOCUMENT Links may be added to a document in such a way that the links are displayed in response to a user behavior. In one example, a document has both explicit and non-explicit links. Explicit links may be highlighted by a browser at the time the page is rendered, while non-ex... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208597 | NETWORKED BASED MODULARIZED ADVERTISEMENTS A system for serving localized advertisements generates browser code operable by a browser to cause the browser to display a web page of information that includes an advertisement. The displayed advertisement includes a graphical indicator that indicates that the advert... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110191416 | Content Author Badges A method executes at a server to: receive a request from a user at a client computer to establish authorship of content posted online by the user, wherein the content is stored at a host computer; and verify the identity of the user by verifying credentials of the user.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110173097 | CONSOLIDATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMER TRACKING OF CUSTOMER'S ON-LINE TRANSACTIONS Methods and hardware systems are described to enable an online customer to easily track or find the status of his purchases or inquires from various merchandisers without having to individually recall each merchandiser-sent emails. A software tool, operating under a har... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110166916 | Time-Resolved & User-Spatially-Activated Feedback Entrance and Method Thereof The present invention discloses a time-resolved & user-spatially-activated feedback entrance (TruSafe) graphical user interface (GUI), useful to distinguish between allowed human feedback (entrance-OPENED) and disallowed response generated by a computer (entrance-LO... | 07/07/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110145758 | DISPLAY NAVIGATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT According to one aspect of the present disclosure a method and technique for navigating between windows is disclosed. The method includes providing a graphic user interface (GUI) including a plurality of windows ordered along a depth (Z) axis. The method also includes, ... | 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 |
| 20110113361 | ADJUSTMENT PRESETS FOR DIGITAL IMAGES Processes and systems are presented, for previewing and applying adjustment presets to digital images. The disclosed processes enable a user to preview selected adjustment presets before applying the previewed adjustment presets to the digital image. One or more preview... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110107252 | TECHNIQUE FOR GENERATING AN ANALYSIS EQUATION During a method, a hybrid graphical user interface (GUI), which is associated with electronic-design-automation (EDA) software, is displayed. This hybrid GUI allows users to efficiently specify useful analysis equations using textual and/or graphical information. In par... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110083109 | Electronic Whiteboard A method and apparatus for use with an electronic display system including a display surface wherein the system is capable of identifying a touch location on at least a portion of the display surface of a contact with the display surface, the display surface having a di... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110061028 | Digital Media Asset Browsing with Audio Cues Methods, systems and apparatus for image-based browsing through a plurality of digital media assets assisted by media cues are disclosed. The media cues can be provided by playback of short audio segments, referred to as snippets, of the digital media assets being brows... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110047514 | RECORDING DISPLAY-INDEPENDENT COMPUTERIZED GUIDANCE A method for recording a display-independent computerized guidance script, the method comprising capturing a screenshot of a GUI of a computerized application, analyzing an area, in the screenshot, surrounding a determined cursor position, to identify a GUI control, rec... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040633 | Multi Layered Webpage Tool A system and method for creating online advertising economies of scale by maximizing quantity, applicability, accessibility and distribution of advertisements on a webpage that includes providing a tool to reside on a webpage that presents a first tier of data to a user... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035700 | Multi-Operation User Interface Tool Some embodiments provide a method for performing operations in a user interface of an application. The method activates a cursor to operate as a multi-operation user-interface (UI) tool. The method performs a first operation with the multi-operation UI tool in response ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110022987 | CYCLE-TAPPING TECHNIQUE FOR SELECTING OBJECTS A technique for selecting an object is described. During this technique, a computer system selects an object from multiple objects associated with a circuit design in an electronic-design-automation (EDA) environment based at least on a current cursor location and a cur... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016435 | JOIN OBJECTS There is disclosed an interactive display system comprising an interactive surface for displaying an image and for receiving inputs from remote devices, the system being adapted to detect the presence of at least two remote devices proximate the interactive surface.... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110015868 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAVEFORM ANALYSIS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS A method and an apparatus are provided for performing waveform analysis on physiological parameters. In one embodiment, a method includes reading measurement values of a first physiological parameter relating to time, and displaying them as a trend display graph in a tr... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016376 | Web Page Hot Spots An image map designer creates an image map for use with an image. The image map contains one or more hotspots, each of which specifies a set of pixels which may be non-contiguous and non-polygonal. The image map designer may create the image map using image processing s... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110010162 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY TRANSLATION A user interface for displaying source data and a translated copy of a segment of the source data is provided. The user interface includes a first display portion for displaying at least a subset of the source data on the display. The user interface includes a second di... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010323 | INFERRING VIEW SEQUENCE AND RELEVANCE DATA A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives action sequence data pertaining to a plurality of selectable graphical items displayed to a user on a computer display screen, wherein the action sequence data is indicative of an order in which the u... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010656 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED USER INTERFACE A method and apparatus for receiving information from a user of a computerized application. Within the method, application data is received, comprising one or more items with which a user can interact. Additional data relating to the application may be received as well.... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004852 | Electronic Medical Record System For Dermatology The disclosure provides an electronic medical records system for dermatology. The electronic medical records system uses visual workflow methods instead of text based methods. Health professionals are able to identify skin areas and graphically record skin locations in ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100333042 | DISPLAY DATA OUTPUT DEVICE Provided is a display data output apparatus for outputting a display image to be displayed on a screen. In order to reduce a time until the displayed image is displayed after input is received from a user, the display data output apparatus assigns priorities to a plural... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100333041 | AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF POINTING DEVICES TO MULTIPLE DISPLAYS An automatic pointing device mapping method (400, 420) and associated apparatus for automatically remapping the active area (12) of a graphics tablet (10) to a plurality of displays (122, 124), such as might be used in conjunction with a grap... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100306657 | Audio-Enhanced User Interface for Browsing Embodiments of the present invention pertain to, but are not limited to, browsing a displayed listing of stored audio content such as music in a music player, PC, or portable electronic device, including MP3 players and mobile phones. Various embodiments of the present ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100306678 | USER INTERFACE CONTROLS INCLUDING CAPTURING USER MOOD A method for operating at least one control in a graphical user interface that provides a user to output state of mind about current contents by selecting at least one of a multiple areas associated thereof. A change in texture is observed when a pointer is over at leas... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299587 | Column Selection, Insertion and Resizing in Computer-Generated Tables Embodiments of the present invention provide for manipulating a table within a client-based web-application. To provide a user with a more fluid process by which to manipulate a table structure within his/her document, the present invention provides the ability for the ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FINANCIAL MARKET DATA WITH HIDDEN INFORMATION Systems and methods that manage financial market data with hidden information. The systems and methods may receive market data about a plurality of financial instruments. The plurality of financial instruments comprises at least two different kinds of financial instrume... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299168 | IT ASSET MANAGEMENT TREND CHARTING FOR COMPLIANCE OVER TIME Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide to store and display, in a trending analysis graphical user interface, the data for each execution of the underlying metric data alongside the date for which the metric was run. ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293510 | WEBPAGE MAGNIFIER/FORMATTER USING CSS PROPERTIES AND CURSOR/MOUSE LOCATION An approach is provided that receives web page data at a network adapter included in an information handling system. A process identifies a first set style sheets that apply to the web page data and a second set of style sheets that apply to graphical elements that are ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100287496 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LAYOUT OF A WINDOW An apparatus and method for managing the layout of a window is provided. The apparatus includes a display unit that displays the window on a screen; the screen is divided into a plurality of display areas; a pointer-position-checking unit that checks the coordinate posi... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100281385 | Presenting an Editing Tool in a Composite Display Area A computer readable medium (CRM) storing a media editing application providing a consolidated editing tool is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has a display area for displaying a composite presentation that the application cr... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100262933 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SELECTING AN ITEM A method and an apparatus of selecting an item rapidly and with a high degree of precision in devices including but not limited to portable terminals. The method of selecting an item includes: displaying a cursor having an area where an item can be selected; checking an... | 10/14/2010 |
