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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185825 | Hiding search box based on search provider settings The display of a search box within a toolbar is controlled based on the search provider settings of search box native to an application or operating system, such as a search box natively provider by a web browser. The search box is maintained within the toolbar when... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181111 | System and method for providing social context to digital activity The system and method for providing social context to digital activity combines mobile device contact information with user-provided website information to aid users when browsing the Internet. Users of mobile devices define identifications of themselves for website... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176428 | Portable internet access device back page cache The present invention aims to provide a system that allows multiple users operating a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), receiving information from a server via a cellular phone, to access the Internet or the World Wide Web (WWW), view and interact with these images ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176411 | Integrating an applet into a multi-page or multi-tasking web application to enable applet state to be automatically saved and restored A Web page of a Web application can be identified. The identified Web page can include an applet. A navigation action from the identified Web page to another Web page of the multi-page Web application can be detected. A state of the applet can be automatically saved... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166405 | Information processing apparatus, display data providing method and program There is provided an information processing apparatus, including a storage part storing, user by user, history information, an evaluation processing part deriving, user by user, an evaluation index value corresponding to an evaluation theme requested in a display re... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161394 | Configurable metric groups for presenting data to a user A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application can be used to view data about one or more metrics that reflect the performanc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156155 | Method and apparatus for displaying data models and data-model instances Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and techniques for displaying data models and data-model instances. During operation, the system can use a model graph to represent the data model and an instance graph to represent the data-model instance. In the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140977 | Hosted data visualization service A hosted data visualization data processing system can be provided. The system can include a host computing platform configured for communicative coupling to remote clients over a computer communications network. In this regard, each of the remote clients can includ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135703 | Multi-partition query governor in a computer database system An apparatus and method for a multi-partition query governor in a partitioned computer database system. In preferred embodiments a query governor uses data of a query governor file that is associated with multiple partitions to determine how the query governor manag... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132090 | Dynamic creation of symptom databases from social bookmarks A method for the dynamic creation of a symptom database from at least one social bookmark includes bookmarking a webpage comprising a solution to a problem using a web browser; defining a bookmark for the webpage by editing a bookmark field to characterize the solut... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122360 | Automatic selection of user-oriented web content A toolbar is provided, which may be downloaded and installed in a user's web browser. The toolbar uploads the user's browsing history to a server. The server determines, based on the browsing history, which sites the user visits frequently. Additionally, the server ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117536 | System and method for controlling downloading web pages A system for controlling downloading web pages is disclosed. The system parses a current web page to generate information about the web pages pointed to by the selected links in the current web page. A number of the selected links and the number of script commands i... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112713 | Method for providing alias folders in a document management system Interactive collaboration within a secure, server-based social community integrated with a secured document management system that includes at least one of a plurality of professional functionalities and a plurality of integrative functionalities to members having a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108778 | System and method for context enhanced mapping within a user interface A system and method for Context Enhanced Mapping. A request is received from a user over a network for a map comprising an identification of a physical location, and at least one criteria. The physical location is mapped. Spatial, temporal, topical, and social data ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8091030 | Method and apparatus of graphical object selection in a web browser Various approaches for selection of graphical objects in a web browser-based application are described. In one approach, a selection overlay is stored in a web document. The selection overlay encompasses a plurality of user-selectable graphical objects in the web do... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8046693 | Obtaining user feedback on displayed items User feedback regarding a displayed item, such as a web page, is obtained by providing a first and second transport-control elements, such as back buttons, that have the same effect for moving within or between displayable items but which have different associated s... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037044 | Search bar with intelligent parametric search statement generation Described is a method for generating a parametric search statement for finding a target document. The parametric search statement is generated in the text boxes of a search bar. A user action is performed in the text box. An in-place context menu having menu items r... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8024659 | Dividing a large input page into a plurality of smaller input pages to provide easier use of a terminal with a small screen In a terminal with a display screen that is too small to accept a required input in its entirety, a user is enabled to perform the input without intricate operation. The terminal displays input pages downloaded from a server via a network, and transmits input inform... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8001458 | System and method for communicating state and title information between a browser and a rich Internet application A system and method communicates address and state information from a browser to a rich Internet application to allow the rich Internet application to start at a location, or preload variables, corresponding to the state information. The system and method communicat... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984379 | Standard schema and user interface for website maps Various embodiments provide a standardized schema that can be used by site developers to define a site map and its associated hierarchy. In at least some embodiments, a corresponding user interface can be created within an application such as, for example, a Web bro... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979463 | Database system and method for access control and workflow routing A method for use with a database management system to produce a data structure encoded in computer readable memory that indicates a role associated with a transaction comprising: obtaining page context information that includes userid, subjectid, page name and a tra... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962843 | Browser session overview A method includes storing one or more resource identifiers identifying one or more associated resources visited using a browser application, and presenting the resource identifiers in an order designated by one of a plurality of history presentation settings and res... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958451 | Graphical user interface for an information mediation system A graphical user interface for an information mediation system is provided for assisting the user to discover an information source that matches a sense of value of the user which normally can not be explicitly expressed in language, from a plurality of information ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7945858 | System and method for controlling and operating an astronomical observatory A system for operating an astronomical observatory made up of astronomical hardware, utilizing a web browser operated by a user, and a web server connected to the observatory, wherein both the control to, and feedback from the observatory are displayed to the user i... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7934161 | Electronic search interface technology Techniques are described for displaying a representation of a list of electronic search results while a user is reviewing content linked to by electronic search results included in the list. While the user is reviewing the search results, the user may jump between c... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921365 | System and method for browsing tabbed-heterogeneous windows The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing multiple content windows. The content windows may host a web browser, a shell view, a word processing application, and the like. A set of content windows are grouped into a frame in... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7908559 | Electronic search interface technology Techniques are described for displaying a representation of a list of electronic search results while a user is reviewing content linked to by electronic search results included in the list. While the user is reviewing the search results, the user may jump between c... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895520 | Methods and apparatus for managing scheduled activities in a storage area network A SAN activity scheduler provides an integrated view of various types of scheduled activities, provides a summary report of multiple scheduled activities, and provides a seamless interface to drill down into specific details of scheduled activities. The scheduler pr... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890871 | System and method for dynamically generating, maintaining, and growing an online social network An on-line community/social network system and method for provide a novel technique that enables an on-line community system to obtain information necessary to provide additional and more robust features to its users, solely from the user's participation in the comm... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877691 | Adaptive dynamic navigational control for navigating within an application Methods are disclosed for navigating between and within applications that display most recently visited applications and application parts, with redundancies eliminated from the display. The methods can be carried out in a computational machine that compiles a list ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853584 | Multi-partition query governor in a computer database system An apparatus and method for a multi-partition query governor in a partitioned computer database system. In preferred embodiments a query governor uses data of a query governor file that is associated with multiple partitions to determines how the query governor mana... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840901 | System and method of skinning themes A media engine for creating a graphical interface for an application on a device is disclosed. The media engine comprises an interaction interface for notifying the media engine of changes to the application, a renderer for rendering the graphical interface, a parse... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831915 | Dynamically protecting against web resources associated with undesirable activities Various embodiments provide protection against web resources associated with one or more undesirable activities. In at least some embodiments, a method detects and responds to a user-initiated activity on a computing device. Responding can include, by way of example... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831541 | System and method for implementing browser milestone navigation in a data processing system A system and method for implementing browser milestone navigation in a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a browser queries a search engine with at least one search term. In response to the query, the browser retrieves at le... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827493 | Data processing apparatus, data processing method of data processing apparatus, and computer-readable memory medium storing program therein To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily con... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827478 | Dynamic generation of form pages for accessing a database Systems and methods for generating dynamic form pages for accessing a database. An item model is stored in the database and defines attributes or characteristics of item types. The item model is separate from the actual data and from the data model. When a form page... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823068 | Internet-based, dual-paned virtual tour presentation system with orientational capabilities and versatile tabbed menu-driven area for multi-media content delivery A graphical user interface for a comprehensive user-friendly Internet-based multi-media dual-paned virtual tour presentation system having orientational capabilities and having an image navigation section; an image display section; and a hierarchical information org... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818675 | Web information processing apparatus and web information processing method In a web information processing apparatus (100), a web page information acquisition unit (106) acquires information of a web page being browsed with a web browser (103). Then, an association determination unit (202) determines whether or ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7797635 | Electronic search interface technology Techniques are described for displaying a representation of a list of electronic search results while a user is reviewing content linked to by electronic search results included in the list. While the user is reviewing the search results, the user may jump between c... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793209 | Electronic apparatus with a web page browsing function A Web page browsing apparatus has stored keywords such as a “next” which is a clue to pass to a next page. When an “Advance” key of a key-in unit is operated, a HTML file of a Web page displayed presently on a display is searched for a character string which... | 09/07/2010 |
