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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181112 | Independent portlet rendering The rendering of portal pages on can be sped up by allowing individual portlets to be displayed while other portlets of the page are still waiting to finish rendering. Temporary messages can be displayed for the portlets that are still rendering. This temporary cont... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8082508 | Method and system for obtaining and modifying portlets via an application programming interface A method and a system for obtaining and modifying a plurality of Web components, such as portlets, via an application programming interface (API) are described. The method includes permitting a portal application to invoke a portlet, wherein the portlet runs inside ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065619 | Customized today module A method and apparatus for customizing content presented to individual users or user segments is provided. There may be three components, a web portal and toolbar component, a modeling component, and a scoring component. The web portal and toolbar component presents... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046696 | System and method for providing active menus in a communities framework A community accessed via a portal can be provided that maintains user membership during collaboration on various projects. The members of the community can have access to and share multiple resources. A resource can have a menu associated with it wherein the menu is... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8001476 | Cellular user interface Configurations for a cellular user interface are provided. In one embodiment, a client configuration includes a viewer and a content development kit. A content server distributes cellularized content among several client viewers. Connectors in a scheduled configurat... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001477 | Method for exchanging portlet configuration data The invention relates to method for exchanging portlet configuration data. The method includes: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) component as part of a portlet view provided by a portal page for triggering a portlet configuration exchange process between a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7904818 | Summarizing portlet usage captured responsive to trigger events in a portal page A portal summary controller monitors usage metadata indicating current usage of at least one portlet within at least one portal page for one of multiple events specified to trigger storage of the usage metadata. Responsive to detecting one of the multiple events wit... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7853883 | Content aggregation view layout based on weights Techniques are disclosed for controlling where dynamically-added content will be positioned within the layout of a content aggregation view (e.g., for controlling where content that is created by a portlet will be rendered within a portal page). In preferred embodim... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7827494 | Layout management using data-descriptive meta language documents A data-descriptive meta language file, such as XML, is created that defines the layout operation within the visual interface of a component-based application at runtime. At runtime, the application receives a data-descriptive meta language file that defines the layo... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810036 | Systems and methods for personalizing a portal A system and method for configuring a portal, comprising providing a first user interface operable to define and/or manage the portal; providing a second user interface operable to define and/or manage personalization of the portal; and wherein the portal can includ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7793215 | Indicating focus in a portal environment A method, system and apparatus for indicating input focus in a portal environment. A method for indicating user input focus in a portal environment can include assigning an unfocused style sheet to all unfocused portlets in a portal except for a focused portlet havi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7770101 | Maintaining screen and form state in portlets A portlet state maintenance system can include a portal page setup component configured to generate a logical form in a single portal page from a multiplicity of forms defined within portlet markup aggregated into the single portal page. A portal state save componen... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7707507 | Method and system for configuring a graphical user interface based upon a user profile The present invention comprises a graphical user interface, including methods and apparatus for configuring and implementing such an interface. One or more embodiments of the invention comprise a graphical user interface comprising a main window including a navigati... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7703022 | Display and installation of portlets on a client platform A client computer system, method and software tool for displaying portlet content are provided. The system comprises a user interface, a portlet server and a portlet view tool. The user interface allows the display of a page including one or more view window(s), eac... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7543234 | Stacking portlets in portal pages A portal is comprised of a plurality of portlets. Each portlet accesses hardware and software to gather data. Each portlet offers information to the portal page. Each portlet's information has a specific content type and markup. A subset of portlets are determined s... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7475354 | Method for generating a portal page A solution for generating a portal page based on a data item. In particular, one or more portlets are selected from a set of available portlets based on the data item. The selected portlet(s) are then included on the portal page, which can be provided to a user devi... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7428592 | Securely persisting network resource identifiers Technology is disclosed for securely persisting a network resource identifier, such as a URL, that addresses a network resource, such as a portal. The network resource identifier is persisted from one network resource to another. A system accessed through the portal... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424680 | Set top box object security system Systems and methods for controlling the ability of scripts to access objects defined at the client. The client stores an access control data structure having multiple entries. Each entry is associated with one or more objects for which access is to be controlled. Th... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7376900 | Method and system to control operation of a portlet A method to control a portlet associated with a portal page may include deactivating a selected portlet in response to operating a deactivation feature. The method may also include reactivating the selected portlet in response to operating a reactivation feature. Th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376652 | Personal portal and secure information exchange The present invention provides a secure information exchange mechanism that can be seen as a portal or gateway to his or her digital information. The invention is sometimes referred to as an “n-by-m lockbox” because it allows n suppliers to submit information ac... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376899 | Method and system for producing a graphical password, and a terminal device In the method a graphical password is produced for an electronic system, such as a database, a computer program or Internet pages, the password being composed of various identifier images that are clearly distinguishable from each other. The system can be located in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7360095 | Method and apparatus for a proximity warning system The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer instructions for warning of a presence of a person in a zone having an inadequate security clearance. Movement of the person in the zone is detected. A message is broadcast to selected data processing ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346668 | Dynamic presentation of personalized content Methods and systems for dynamically presenting personalized content are disclosed. Articles may be collected, each article having content, attributes of the content, and content metadata characterizing individual elements of the content. The articles may be filtered... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340679 | Processing life and work events A system with user interface controls, a build component, a runtime component, and a workflow engine enables a user to specify an event definition, create an event instance based on the event definition, and process the event instance. The event definition may inclu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340682 | Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content cont... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337370 | System and method for capturing significant events at web portlets System and method for logging significant events occurring at a web site portal includes a base class portlet service including a significant event catcher method having a register method and a record method, a portlet action table, and an action description table. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334039 | Techniques for generating rules for a dynamic rule-based system that responds to requests for a resource on a network Techniques for forming a rule to respond dynamically to requests for one or more resources on a network include providing, to a resource administrator, an interface for specifying the rule. The interface includes a first presentation area that displays data defining... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325202 | Method and system for selectively retrieving updated information from one or more websites A computer system having a user specified web browsing system for selectively retrieving content from a variety of web sites is disclosed. The web browser of the present invention is configured to track multiple web sites at any given time to determine content updat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308488 | Method, system and program products for distributing portal content processing The present invention generally relates to a method, system and program product for distributing portal content processing. Specifically, a request for portal content is received on a surrogate system and then passed to a portal system. The portal system will obtain... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305436 | User collaboration through discussion forums Systems for providing content to multiple users are described, where the systems identify individual content elements within the content, and provide a discussion forum linked to each of the content elements. As one of the users views the content and associated cont... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305679 | Portal using model view controller A portal application implemented on a multipurpose computer provides access from a client to a multimedia service. The portal application comprises a plurality of services respectively structured according to a model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern and r... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7287227 | System and method for editing web pages in a client/server architecture A method for the editing of web pages by selectively providing editing logic and data that associates portions of the page with data sources used to provide the portions. Identical pages are provided to both editors and non-editors, preferably by retrieving and view... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266835 | Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker A user can perform secure transactions via an interactive television ticker. While viewing an advertisement scrolling in the ticker, the user can select that advertisement to initiate an on-line transaction. That resulting transaction can be performed within the tic... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266693 | Validated mutual authentication A method of authenticating a user through a validated mutual authentication system is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes establishing a validating fractal image during an enrollment or other process. A plurality of fractal images are provided ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266589 | Service-portal enabled automation control module (ACM) The invention presents a system and a method for assisting automation control module (ACM) customers to retrieve information relevant to their specific ACM(s). A service-portal ACM combines a conventional ACM with a service portal and/or a general-purpose computer t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257775 | Providing user interface elements in an application that change in response to content A user interface is automatically updated when the content sources that provide information or data accessible within an application are added or deleted. Associated with each category of content source is a content processor. The content processor determine the app... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251784 | Supplying supplementary information for printed books A method for supplying supplementary information related to printed books comprises the steps of: distributing a plurality of different printed books having respective content; supplying a common internet web access address together with each one of the plurality of... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251785 | Method and system of providing access privileges to records of members of a community A method and system of providing access privileges to records of members of a community may comprise storing an assignment of a member of a community to a first position in the community to generate a first relationship. Access privileges to records of the member ma... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236579 | Universal call-log system and method for a home network telephone A system and method are provided for maintaining a universal call-log in a Home Network telephone system. The method comprises: transceiving calls on at least one external telephone line; bridging calls to a plurality Home Network endpoints; and, logging the bridged... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227529 | System and method for accessing ubiquitous resources in an intelligent environment A system and method for enabling a wireless terminal to access and operate ubiquitous devices (“UDs”), such as televisions, DVD players, etc. The system comprises a server coupled to access points and UDs via a LAN or a WLAN. Each access point is associated with... | 06/05/2007 |
