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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185835 | Collector node for a graphical program A system and method for creating a graphical program that performs a numerical function on at least a subset of a set of data values received over a period of time. The method may utilize a “collector node”, which simplifies these types of common programming tas... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185833 | Graphical deployment of a program to a device which displays the program proximate to the device A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185834 | User-defined events for a graphical programming environment One embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method for enabling a graphical program to dynamically register one or more events during execution of the graphical program. An event registration node may be displayed in the block diagram of the graphical pro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185832 | Graphical deployment of a program to a device which displays the program connected to the device A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171417 | Method for switching user interface, electronic device and recording medium using the same A user interface switching method, and an electronic device and a recording medium using the same are provided. First, a plurality of user interfaces are provided, and one of the user interfaces is displayed in a touch screen of the portable electronic device. A rep... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8146008 | System using description information to generate control panel for controlling a network device A control system comprises a plurality of peripheral devices represented as objects, and a controller connectable to the plurality of peripheral devices via a common communication line for unitarily controlling the plurality of peripheral devices. The controller is ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140987 | GUI modeling of web services The disclosure provides various embodiments of systems and methods for GUI modeling of web services. One method is a computer implemented method including presenting a plurality of web services to a user through a graphical user interface, with each web service comp... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132115 | Dynamic properties for software objects A method, apparatus and article of manufacture provide for displaying per-instance dynamic properties of an object. A reference to an object instance having a dynamic property that is supplied at runtime for the object instance on a per-instance basis and is not sto... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127238 | System and method for controlling actions within a programming environment This patent discloses tools, methods and systems for dynamically visualizing, controlling and modifying the timing of actions that are implemented as part of an interactive multimedia experience. The tools, methods and systems include a timing region that dynamicall... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117552 | Incrementally designing electronic forms and hierarchical schemas A system and method that enables a designer to build electronic forms and corresponding hierarchical schemas are described. Displays of hierarchical schemas, electronic forms, and components used to build the hierarchical schemas and electronic forms are provided to... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108784 | Configuring icons to represent data transfer functionality Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagra... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103962 | Form-based ontology creation and information harvesting Extracting data from web pages. User input is received defining a tabular form. User input is received correlating portions of the form with user selected data items contained in one or more first web pages. The user input is correlated to create an ontology definin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099422 | System and method for manipulating data using iconic representations A Sort-on-the-Fly/Search-on-the-Fly search engine provides an intuitive means for searching databases, allowing a user to access data in the database without having to know anything about the database structure. A user selects a desired search term, and the search e... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095882 | Additional functionality for telephone numbers and utilization of context information associated with telephone numbers in computer documents Telephone numbers are identified and highlighted on any computer document being loaded into a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing by a user, and context information associated with the telephone numbers so tagged may also be viewed. The user may click on any ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091016 | Visually manipulating instance collections The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for visually manipulating instance collections. Items presenters present data collections along with custom designers for each data element in the data collections. The customer designe... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082169 | User interface for workflow builder A method is disclosed for creating a workflow process. An initial activity (304, 316) is displayed. The method then displays a user interface diagram (FIG. 5) to configure a type of an activity to be added to the workflow process in response to a detec... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078980 | User defined wire appearance indicating communication functionality in a graphical programming environment System and method for configuring a wire appearance in a graphical programming environment. A first data type (or class), or communication functionality between nodes, e.g., timing, or data transfer, e.g., data transfer semantics, mechanism, or medium, in a graphica... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074177 | User defined wire appearance indicating data type in a graphical programming environment System and method for configuring a wire appearance in a graphical programming environment. A first data type (or class), or communication functionality between nodes, e.g., timing, or data transfer, e.g., data transfer semantics, mechanism, or medium, in a graphica... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065201 | Internet-based method of and system for managing and delivering consumer product information at points along the world wide web using consumer product information (CPI) requesting and graphical user interface (GUI) displaying subsystems driven by server-side components and managed by consumer product manufactures and/or authorized parties Method of and system for delivering consumer product related information to consumers over the Internet. The system and method involves creating a UPN-encoded Consumer Product Information (CPIR) enabling Servlet for each consumer product registered within a manufact... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8042055 | Replaying captured network interactions A user interface event monitor captures user interface events executed by a client during a network session. A network session monitor captures network data exchanged between the client and a web application during the network session. A replay device identifies con... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037417 | Lasso select A lasso select tool that allows a user to draw a flexible line of selection ink in order to select one or more graphical objects for manipulation. As the user draws this selection line, the lasso select tool continuously redraws and displays a connection line connec... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032838 | System and method for processing and rendering markup language based electronic mail A system and method of processing a markup language based electronic mail includes identifying in a head section of markup language code any style rules for rendering the markup language based e-mail and sorting the style rules in order of reference in the markup la... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028240 | Custom labeler for screen readers A screen reader feature is described that enables end users to assign their own descriptions to forms and navigational elements in electronic documents such as web pages, word processing documents and portable document formats. The form or navigational element is id... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028242 | Diagram with configurable wires Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagra... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028241 | Graphical diagram wires whose appearance represents configured semantics Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagra... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8006193 | Web service user experience without upfront storage expense A method is provided for allocating resources for users of a service based on whether a user has expressed intent to fully utilize capabilities of the service. If the intent is expressed by a user, an infrastructure is created that enables the user to maintain, via ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001123 | Open source publishing system and method It is a first aspect of the present invention to provide a method of publishing content including the steps of: (a) providing a printed publication having printed content, a storage device storing a content database having digital content, an output device for outpu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001479 | System and methods to access computer files and position and control application window(s) on a graphical user interface The invention enables a computer user to issue voice commands to open computer readable files and control and/or position their associated graphical application windows on a graphical user interface. Further, the operator can issue voice commands to precisely positi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996782 | Data transfer indicator icon in a diagram Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagra... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987430 | Apparatus, system, and method for customizing a graphical user interface An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for customizing a graphical user interface. A rendition module renders a base GUI to provide an operator with tools for managing Data Processing Devices (DPD). A tag module communicates interface tags to the base GUI. T... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984380 | Method for automatically creating book definitions Book definitions can be dynamically created based on content provided by a user. Such dynamic creation can include organization of user-supplied content into appropriate form, adjustment of book cover properties to match the user-supplied content, and verification t... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979804 | Cross-view undo/redo for multi-view editing environments An editing environment is disclosed having both a design and code views, each with its own undo/redo stacks. The editing environment includes logic to form an object that encapsulates the edits and changes made during a code view editing session. The object is assoc... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975233 | Automatic conversion of a textual language into a graphical program representation Automatic conversion of textual program code to graphical program code is performed. The method automatically translates the given functionality of a textual program code into executable graphical program code, corresponding to the same functionality. The method inc... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975234 | Graphical acquisition of an objective function A user interface is described which displays a shape and enables a user to manipulate that shape by dividing it into a number of regions. Each region has an associated term which is made up from one or more constraints. A mathematical function, such as an objective ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971149 | Method for comparing an original document and a modified document using user-selected reference point sets A method for emphasizing differences between original and modified documents. The method includes displaying the original document with the original document defining an original document boundary and a first bitmap. The method includes displaying the modified docum... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958454 | Graphical state machine based programming for a graphical user interface Systems and methods are provided for the design, development and execution of a graphical user interface using a state machine based programming paradigm integrated with a componentized graphical user interface. The present invention generates a graphical state mach... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954059 | Automatic conversion of text-based code having function overloading and dynamic types into a graphical program for compiled execution Automatic conversion of textual program code to graphical program code is performed. The method automatically translates the given functionality of a textual program code into executable graphical program code, corresponding to the same functionality. The method inc... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7941429 | Interface for visually searching and navigating objects Interfaces, apparatuses, and methods for searching and navigating a set of objects are provided. In one example, an interface includes a field for entering filter criteria for searching a set of objects and a display portion for displaying tiles associated with the ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941757 | Method and apparatus for creating multimedia presentations Some embodiments of the invention provide a computerized method for creating and editing a multimedia item. The method provides a menu theme for a multimedia item. The menu theme includes a display section for displaying a multimedia item, an adjustable text section... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937665 | System and method for automatically generating a graphical program to implement a prototype A system and method for automatically generating a graphical program from a prototyping environment application. By utilizing an application specialized for developing solutions to problems in a particular domain, i.e., a prototyping environment, a user may develop ... | 05/03/2011 |
