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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8044959 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8004527 | Self-centering zoom bar graph A self-centering zoom system includes a display device to indicate a measured quantity, and first and second bar graphs displayed on the display device. The first bar graph displays both a current value and a peak value of the measured quantity. The second bar graph... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7965292 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7948492 | Apparatus and method for visualization of operating status in a process control system Deviations associated with a process system are identified, such as by identifying deviations of process variables or production measurements from target values. A graphical display is generated that identifies at least some of the deviations and one or more charact... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7779344 | System and method for creating a value-based stacked bar chart There is provided a system and method for creating a value-based stacked bar chart. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a computer readable medium comprising code adapted to sort a plurality of data entries by transaction value, wherein the plura... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7760203 | Graphic color-pixel-based visual-analytic representations for datasets Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for displaying data by accessing a set of data records that have associated indexes and generating pixels to represent the data records, the colors of the pixels being based on attribute values of the... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7629975 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7348981 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342584 | Method and computer program for implementing interactive bargraphs of any shape or design on a graphical user interface A method and computer program are provided for implementing an interactive bargraph that includes associating an interactive bargraph with an independent touch map image having a plurality of pixel values, displaying the interactive bargraph, determining a current l... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7324108 | Monitoring events in a computer network Monitoring events triggered by a computer network. Each event being provided with attribute values allocated to a given set of attributes, and providing an event display, determining a primary attribute and a corresponding display label of the events selected from t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7290212 | Program and method for displaying a radar chart With spreadsheet software, such as the MICROSOFT EXCEL, a radar chart can be compiled by the use of data in a table made. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7262772 | Visual content summary Techniques are described for selecting and displaying specific content elements from within content of a media asset, such that the content elements may be displayed within a reserved portion of a user display, thereby providing a visual summary of the media asset c... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257778 | Calendar system and a method for producing a calendar view A device and also a system for generating a period-specific calendar view in an electronic device with a display for displaying information and a database for storing calendar data, wherein the method reads calendar data of the period from the database for a calenda... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248263 | User interface for representing multiple data sets on a common graph A method and user interface are provided for independently and conveniently scaling y-values of multiple data sets whereby the data sets may be plotted against a common y-axis and provide satisfactory variability. A multiplier is selected by which data points in a d... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246144 | Method and system for managing a plurality of enterprise business systems An enterprise business process management system and method for definition and execution of business processes formed from portions of one or more business applications present in an enterprise. The enterprise business process management system includes a server, a ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233928 | Rule-based system for determining price adjustments in a product catalog A method for computing a price quote for a product using a contract. The method includes identifying the set of price rules for a plurality of products associated with the contract. Each price rule in the set of price rules is either a hard price rule or a soft pric... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228289 | System and method for trading and displaying market information in an electronic trading environment A system and method for trading and displaying market information along a static axis are described to ensure fast and accurate execution of trades. The static axis, whether is a straight axis or a curved one, can be oriented in any direction. Regardless of how the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218325 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219068 | Method and system for product optimization A method and computer-implemented system for optimizing a product. Based on the “voice of the customer”, aspects of the product that are critical to the customer satisfaction, and target values, therefore, are identified. Aspects are characterized in terms of th... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215338 | System and method for presentation of data streams An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212999 | User interface for an electronic trading system A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote clien... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7193628 | Significance-based display Provided is a technique for displaying information. Initially, a number of data points is obtained, each data point including an estimated statistic. A measure of the statistical significance for each estimated statistic also is obtained, and a graph of the data poi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191028 | Electrically controlled apparatus An electronically controlled apparatus of the present invention includes: an input-output section, which electronically processes and outputs input data; a control section, which electronically controls the input-output section according to operating status data of ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187380 | Telecommunications graphical service program In a graphical user interface for a computer, a method of displays objects for designing a service graph using a plurality of service independent building blocks. The method includes displaying a canvas object, displaying a toolbar object, displaying a menu object, ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170519 | Computer-implemented system and method for generating data graphical displays A computer-implemented system and method for generating data graphical displays. The data is indicative of a plurality of variables. The system and method receive data that is to be displayed in a non-textual format. Graph style data items are retrieved that contain... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7154532 | Video field rate persistence A video field rate persistence is provided for a video waveform display where multiple video components are displayed simultaneously, one component being updated per field interval. A persistence count is assigned to each pixel in a circular field buffer which is di... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149975 | Optical network administration graphical user interface This invention provides an improved graphical user interface (GUI) for optical network administration. The GUI allows a user to view a network topology in which only those nodes at which channel traffic may be added to and/or dropped from a muxed signal are displaye... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146374 | Automated multi-line labeling of a time axis The present invention is an automated method and system of labeling of the axes of a graph with time based data. The present invention uses multi-level time labels to label the time axis of a graph. The invention generates a set of time labels by processing the inpu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7119852 | Apparatus for processing signals The invention relates to an apparatus for processing signals, comprising parameter control means for controlling parameters of said signals in response to manual adjustments by the user as well as automatically generated adjustments based on current ambient factors ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7095387 | Display expansion method and apparatus A portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device includes a housing. The portable electronic device also includes computing electronics that are supported by the housing. The computing electronics include a processor, a display controller co... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086012 | Representation of weighted tree-related elements A corresponding value is determined for each non-root node in a tree-defined path between a root node and a particular non-root node based on a weight W of the corresponding non-root node, a cumulative weight C1 of all descendants of the corresponding non-roo... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075537 | Apparatus for measuring a biological parameter equipped with a graphic representation display The invention concerns an apparatus for measuring a biological parameter of an individual comprising measuring means, means for storing and/or for computing values of said parameter connected to a display (3) for graphic representation of the measured paramet... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071940 | Interactive data visualization and charting framework with self-detection of data commonality A system and method of facilitating data visualization provides for receiving a user response to a data entry interface via a network, where the user response defines a first data set and a second data set. Data points in the first and second data sets include depen... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7061490 | Multi-variate data and related presentation and analysis A recursively partitioned/nested geometric structure is employed to graphically present and/or facilitate analysis of multi-variate data, including functions of multi-dimensional variables. Visual attributes are associated with appropriate ones of the regions within... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7031880 | Method and apparatus for assessing performance of an environmental control system A method and apparatus is disclosed for assessing performance of control applications in an environmental control network and for diagnosing performance problems. The apparatus includes a performance assessment and diagnostic display comprising a facility navigation... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028036 | System and method for visualization of continuous attribute values Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7015912 | System and method for the visual display of data in an interactive zebra chart A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system. The computer program displays all the information that is conventionally displayed in a plurality of pie charts in a single novel chart form. When applicable, this novel chart form can also di... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010460 | Reciprocating engine cylinder contribution tester and method Engine cylinder contribution analysis is provided. An engine cylinder contribution tester includes a displacement measurement device and a signal analyzer. The displacement measurement device detects engine block movements or displacement relative to a fixed positio... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009609 | Method, system, and software for automated generation of graphs from report data A computer implemented method, software, and system for automatically generating a graph from report data includes identifying a report format as having at least one first group at a first level having at least one detail line with at least two data fields in each o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999081 | Method and apparatus for displaying production data for improved manufacturing decision making A new data processing and display method for use in interactive manufacturing process management is achieved. A first variable value, such as WIP, for a manufacturing stage is uploaded from a database and is subtracted from a first target value to obtain a first var... | 02/14/2006 |
