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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185838 | Universal computer input event translator A universal computer event translator, which can be implemented as a computer program for execution on a personal computer, handheld device, or other computer processing platform, provides configurable event translation to map essentially any type of computer input ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8136046 | Information display system for an appliance incorporating electronic interface screen A display system for an appliance incorporates an electronic interface screen, such as an LCD touch screen, through which a wide range of information concerning operational, diagnostic and other data concerning the appliance can be displayed. The screen is divided i... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8091037 | Providing an overview of an object A request is received to display a first object in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system containing several objects having more than one type, some of the several objects being associated with each other. An operation mode setting is accessed. In res... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8060832 | Managing information display Systems and methods for managing information display include the ability, at least in one implementation, to receive a message indicating that the information of a resource is to be displayed and to form a user interface for displaying the resource information by de... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056004 | Information processing apparatus and method For each of a plurality of drawing objects, whether the drawing object is laid out on the rear side of one or more other drawing objects is determined based on an overlapped state of the plurality of drawing objects. The drawing object to be selected is decided base... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046705 | Systems and methods for resolution consistent semantic zooming Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a control framework for organizing, selecting and launching media items including graphical user interfaces coupled with an optional free space control device for collection of the basic control primitiv... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046706 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a service processing module producing at least one of logical screens and display screens for dis... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037418 | System and method for ensuring integrity of data-driven user interface of a wireless mobile station A wireless communication device stores a system GUI configuration file and a downloaded service provider GUI configuration file, each of which contains a text name checksum value that is calculated using the text names of the GUI parameter data stored either the sys... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028243 | Abstraction-aware distributed window configurations in complex graphical user interfaces A user interface to an application processing complex data of multiple data view abstractions allows selection, placement, size and other configurable characteristics of interface components to be controlled by a user and then associated with the data abstraction an... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020110 | Methods for defining queries, generating query results and displaying same Documents are grouped into a plurality of subjects. For documents associated with each subject, a document hierarchy is established that includes a plurality of hierarchical levels. A three-dimensional landscape defined by x, y and z orthogonal axes is displayed on ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015498 | Information display device and image forming apparatus A display control section 77 causes meta-information (attribute information 73 and function information 75) related to an icon 79 read out at step S14 to be dynamically switching-displayed in a space 81 equivalent to two ico... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010905 | Open model ingestion for master data management A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to import a first data model into a meta-data representation in one or more computers. An import wizard or graphical user interface is invoked and guides a user through a process of importing the fi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010904 | Customizable layout of search results Customizable layout of search results techniques are described. In an implementation, a user interface to display search results is provided having one or more portions that are user selectable to customize a layout of search results from a search service. When one ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7987431 | System and method for simultaneous display of multiple information sources A computerized method of presenting information from a variety of sources on a display device. Specifically the present disclosure presents a graphical user interface for organizing the simultaneous display of information from a multitude of information sources. In ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7975236 | Seamless integration of non-native application into host operating system A method, system and computer program product recorded on a computer-readable medium for execution on at least one processor, for seamless integration of a non-host application into a host OS, including launching a first Virtual Execution Environment (VEE) on a comp... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7954060 | Accentuated graphical user interface A graphical user interface in which entities of the interface are manipulated using manipulation operations. The graphical user interface comprises a selectable interface entity upon which manipulation operations are commence-able, a first interface entity distinct ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7941758 | Animation of graphical objects A method for animating graphical objects is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of graphical objects and displaying a subset of the objects in a viewport. In this embodiment, the method may also include calculating a virtual destin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7917861 | User interface elements cloning and transitions Systems and methods of displaying a user interface in a portable electronic device are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes creating a first clone and a second clone of a user interface element. The method also includes displaying the first clone of the us... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917860 | Simple styling A style model implementation that is applied to objects within a user interface to define any attributes of the objects. The model is divided into two parts: a “runtime” which uses a style definition to affect the look and feel of the user interface, and a “de... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7900154 | Method and apparatus for selecting a layout for a user interface to display on an electronic device The disclosure relates to a system and method of selecting a layout for a user interface for generation on a display of an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of: a) obtaining a representation of the interface; b) generating a plurality of parses of th... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7882446 | System for selling, buying, lending, and renting virtual region and method thereof The right for correlating a region or an existence with a virtual region in a virtual world structured in for example the Internet is sold, bought, lent, or rented. For example, when a buyer bought a virtual region from a seller, the virtual region of the seller is ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7882430 | Utility, method and device providing vector images that may be formatted for display in different locales In one embodiment, in response to receiving an image request, a computer-implemented method: 1) retrieves a vector image from a device that is a target of the image request, the vector image illustrating at least a portion of the device; 2) determines a locale for d... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873912 | Process and system for providing a reduced set of fields associated with a report layout The present invention provides methods and apparatus for presenting fields associated with a report format suitable for displaying data associated with a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields being associated with one or more records. A layout is obtained, th... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7861181 | Autonomic user interface widgets A method, system and apparatus for autonomically configuring a user interface. The system can include at least one widget programmed to be disposed in the user interface. The widget can include a dynamically configurable presentation field. Additionally, the system ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7840905 | Creating a theme used by an authoring application to produce a multimedia presentation A menu theme is created using a menu theme description file that contains a general description of each object (such as a drop zone area, selectable menu buttons, menu title, theme background, etc.) contained in the menu theme. In addition, the menu theme descriptio... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840543 | Method for sharing groups of objects A method of sharing a group of one or more objects between a plurality of users, in which one or more of said plurality of users is able to change parameter data of at least one said object. The method comprises storing at least one version of each said object; when... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831921 | Navigation connection points Navigation connection points for separating navigation business logic from user interface elements. Computer executable instructions are used in a navigation framework for implementing navigation business logic separated from user interface elements. This allows the... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827501 | Interactive alert bubbles for alert management Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert bubble management and provide a method, data processing system and computer program product for interactive alert bubbles for alert bubble management. In one embodiment of the i... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827502 | Graphical access to data objects A method, apparatus and system for accessing data objects from a storage medium includes rendering a combination of graphical structures. Each graphical structure depicts a storage hierarchy or logic, and can include a link or reference to stored data objects. The c... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810039 | Image displaying method, image displaying program, and display An image displaying method of displaying an image selected from images stored in an image storing apparatus onto a display has the step of displaying the image selected from the images stored in the image storing apparatus into a partial area on the display based on... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7810038 | Method for modifying a GUI for an application A method, system and computer readable medium for providing an editing mode for a graphical user interface (GUI) is described. A toggle widget is provided to a user of a GUI during execution of the application presenting the GUI. When the user presses the toggle wid... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802194 | Business query language Methods and apparatuses enable providing a structured business query interface to receive a structured business query. The interface can be provided as an extension to a business productivity application. The query is made without having to change context from the a... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783672 | Support mechanisms for improved group policy management user interface Provided are support mechanisms for a user interface mechanism that performs group policy management. The support mechanisms include a context menu map that provides a consistent and efficient way to generate interactive context menus for nodes using only straightfo... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783984 | Voice XML web console The invention provides a method and apparatus, including computer program products, for interfacing communication between a warehouse management system and a portable device, the device being adapted for processing voice XML data, the method comprising: receiving, f... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779362 | Methods and apparatus for selecting objects by state A system selects objects within a graphical user interface by displaying a plurality of objects within the graphical user interface. Each object has an associated set of properties. The system receives a selection condition defining a relationship to be met between ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7752562 | Detection of procedural deficiency across multiple business applications A method includes retrieving a plurality of data extractors to extract data across a plurality of business applications. The plurality data extractors are executed to generate a plurality of individual results sets. The plurality of individual results sets are combi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752563 | Enabling a user to select multiple objects in a document A user is enabled to select multiple objects in a document which is opened in an editor and contains selectable objects by presenting each of the objects as an entry of plurality of entries in a separate window; allowing the user to select multiple entries; and sele... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752564 | System and method for focused navigation using option type filters A sequence of cards representing filters is displayed along a first axis of a user interface with a single card being displayed in a focus area. The card in the focus area defines a selected object type filter, which is applied to another sequence of available optio... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7730414 | Graphical display A device may include logic configured to store a number of media files. The media files may include audio files, video files, image files or multimedia files. The device may also include a display configured to display a graphical representation illustrating informa... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721197 | System and method of displaying content on small screen computing devices Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and computer-readable medium for viewing Web pages on small form factor computing devices. More specifically, the present invention layers Web browsing in a system where a Web page is first displayed in ... | 05/18/2010 |
