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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| 8181113 | Mediating conflicts in computer users context data Techniques are described providing mediated information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations, the providing includes receiving from a first source an indication of a first value for an indicated one of the state at... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8156438 | System for object-oriented data management of securities trends A system for processing electronic data which is transmitted from a host computer to a client computer is provided. The system converts the electronic data into a target format that differs from the format in which the data was received at the host computer. With th... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151197 | On-line system for creating a printable product A system for providing on-line creation of printable products such as, announcements, banners, business cards, calendars, greeting cards, certificates, craft cards, envelopes, gift tags, invitations, labels, message cards, origami, postcards, posters, stationary, st... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8132108 | Customizable database-driven menu structure for a portable computing device A portable media playing device incorporating a menu structure. The device includes a display mechanism, a navigation database, including a navigation record with a navigation description, and an action database, including an action record with an action description... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122052 | Data model simplification through field fallout Methods, articles of manufacture and systems are provided for simplifying a query building process by limiting the number of fields presented to a user for building queries. The number of fields presented to the user may be limited by hiding one or more logical fiel... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117547 | Environment-interactive context-aware devices and methods Location-aware methods and systems are described. In one embodiment, a portable computing device determines its location by accessing one or more hierarchical tree structures each of which comprising multiple nodes that represent physical or logical locations, and t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112714 | Customizing application page loading in a discovery interface A system provides customized user interface data to a media application, such as a media discovery interface, or to any application for that matter, thereby extending the original application. Via a network connection, elements of the user interface can be downloade... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103954 | Proxy server, and method and program for controlling same It is so arranged that a cookie can be utilized even by a client terminal that does not support cookie information. An index.html file to which cookie information has been appended is transmitted from a web server to a proxy server. A link destination URL contained ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099661 | Logging and evaluating manual interactions by users to support optimizing and streamlining business processes The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for logging and evaluating activity to support optimizing and streamlining a process, such as a business process. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-imp... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095865 | Layout manager Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for managing layout updates to user interface elements. A dirty state of user interface elements is tracked in a tree with multiple nodes of user interface elements. The dirty state allows dirty subtrees of the nodes... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091031 | System and method for computer-created advertisements The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product ref... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8074174 | GUI application development supporting apparatus, method, and computer program An application development supporting apparatus and method that make it possible to generate a GUI application, freely altering the settings for graphical representation corresponding to devices, are provided. A configuration in which the logical part and the graphi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074167 | Cross domain presence of web user interface and logic Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that allow for repurposing content of a source web site for an external web site. The developer uses a programming feature to create a web page with a portion of content suitable for use in the form of a gadget contr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069409 | Customized remote access to imaging node front panels Methods and systems for customized remote access to imaging node front panels offer improvements in the areas of unified access, on-screen viewing and comprehension of front panels delivered by diverse imaging nodes to remote client nodes. The imaging nodes may be d... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065620 | System and method for defining and presenting a composite web page A method for defining a composite web page is disclosed which includes identifying a web page referencing at least one associated element. The method further includes analyzing the web page to determine a list of the associated elements and presenting the list to a ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8051379 | System, apparatus, method and computer readable storage medium for displaying information related to an image-forming apparatus connected to a network An image-forming apparatus includes a web browser and is connectable to a network. The image-forming apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a menu request including identification information of the image-forming apparatus, a reception unit co... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032835 | System and method for replacing application publisher interface branding with identity plates Identity plates are described, including importing identity data into an application, the identity data being used to configure one or more identity elements, configuring an identity plate using the one or more identity elements, and presenting the identity plate wi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028237 | Portal-based desktop Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing a portal-based desktop. A computer-implemented method for providing access to one or more computer programs and information includes receiving a request from a client computer, the request spe... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020104 | Contextual responses based on automated learning techniques Techniques are disclosed for using a combination of explicit and implicit user context modeling techniques to identify and provide appropriate computer actions based on a current context, and to continuously improve the providing of such computer actions. The approp... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996764 | Apparatus, program and method for accepting a request from a client computer via a network and executing a web application A web application server executes a process appropriately also with respect to an access from a terminal device which was not recognized by the web application when the application was designed. The web application server includes a DLG file storage unit 12 h... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7971144 | Adaptive content platform and method of using same An adaptive content platform includes one or more content-enabled, dependent applications, each of which includes a user interface and business logic. A services layer, which is interfaced with the dependent applications and a software infrastructure, provides one o... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958452 | System and method for thin client development of a platform independent graphical user interface The subject application is directed to a system and method for thin client graphical user interface development. Primitive data is stored in associated memory corresponding to graphical user interface primitives. Each primitive corresponds to a display or a control ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958453 | System and method for real-time, multi-user, interactive and collaborative environments on the web A method and system for real-time multi-user interactions and collaborations over the web. A method of balancing the needs of the group and the needs of the individual is shown through implementation of relaxed WYSIWIS design principles, where each web page served b... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949944 | Creation and delivery of customized content A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for delivering customized content to clients with diverse content needs, such as clients from diverse geographical areas an language backgrounds. Customizable content is separated from the underlying code, which is use... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945860 | Systems and methods for managing conversations between information technology resources A system for managing a conversation includes one or more interfaces configured to provide management information about the conversation to a manager. The interface can be configured to provide information regarding a resource such as a Web service that contains the... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941748 | Systems and methods for web site editing interfaces A system and method for maintaining a Web site is disclosed that includes browsing to a Web page to be edited, automatically downloading a source file for the Web page including related files associated with display of the Web page, editing the source file, and auto... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7925981 | Systems and methods for managing web services via a framework of interfaces A system for managing a Web service comprises a service managed object associated with the Web service. The service managed object includes an interface configured to represent management features for the service to a manager. The manager can access information rega... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917855 | Method and apparatus for configuring a user interface A method and apparatus for configuring a user interface is disclosed. The method and apparatus allow for the determination of a function provided by the user interface using a skin. Such a skin includes information regarding an object, where the object represents an... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913173 | Method and apparatus for acquiring data presented within a web browser One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates acquiring data, which is presented within a web browser, for an application. During operation, the system receives a command from a user to acquire data from the web browser for the applicati... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7877693 | Application sharing security A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for facilitating application sharing. In operation, a user selects at least one of a plurality of applications operating on a first computer to share with at least a second computer. The user then selects at least one... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853884 | Control-based graphical user interface framework A method for accepting a request, comprising mapping the request to a control tree factory, generating a control tree from the factory based on the request wherein the control tree can include at least one control, advancing the control tree through at least one lif... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844905 | Information display system A system and a method for information display that is well adapted to marketing in the current, rapidly changing digital transmission communications setting is described. The invention provides a viewer interface that can be embodied in an inexpensive portable infor... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7827495 | Method and data structure for user interface customization A method for changing visual attributes presented by a graphical user interface of a device such as a mobile electronic device by loading onto the device a file containing information for changing selected visual attributes of the interface. A method or compiler for... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818676 | System, method and program product for a content viewer portlet A system, method and program product for creating a customized content viewer portlet from a content viewer portlet template. The system comprises a content viewer portlet template that is imported into a workbench. The content viewer portlet template includes a per... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814424 | Webpage-flags sensitive toolbar A browser add-on toolbar that offers users to collect toolbars from visited webpages that offer such toolbars and which, later, the user may select any one of the collected toolbars to become the current toolbar that the browser provides to the user. These abilities... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814423 | Method for providing a graphical user interface A method for rendering a portal graphical user interface (GUI), comprising providing for the representation of a GUI desktop, a GUI look and feel, and a GUI book as a set of controls wherein the controls can be organized in a logical hierarchy, traversing the repres... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805680 | Statistical metering and filtering of content via pixel-based metadata An apparatus for using metadata to more precisely process displayed content may include a processor executing stored instructions, which causes the apparatus to at least receive an image data frame including pixels having a visual object(s), wherein bits in the imag... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7802192 | System and method for customizing layer based themes There is provided a method for customizing a customizable theme of a user interface of a communication device. The user interface includes a plurality of screens having one or more modifiable screen attributes. The method further includes: receiving a base theme com... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783981 | Computer peripheral product and method of branding utility software associated with same A method of customizing the branding of utility software associated with a customized computer peripheral device. The customized peripheral device includes brand data stored in memory. The utility software includes a branding module that reads the brand data from th... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779023 | Intelligent internet website with hierarchical menu An internet website which presents a hierarchical menu structure to users includes a personalization engine 14 to automatically modify the menu structure for each user at least according to that user's previous browsing history at the site. In one embodiment ... | 08/17/2010 |
