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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| 8108787 | Distributing input events to multiple applications in an interactive media environment In an interactive media environment, input events are distributed to a plurality of applications where each application includes zero or more script components and zero or more markup files and has a Z order which corresponds to the position of the applications' vis... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8024667 | In-document floating object re-ordering Techniques are disclosed herein for re-ordering floating objects in an electronic document. An electronic document having floating objects is displayed in a first mode. Each floating object has an x-y location in the document and has a position on a z-order stack. I... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7945855 | Smart space insertion A system and method for inserting space is described. A user may designate content to be inserted into a document and have the system insert space to accommodate the new content. The system and method permit some content to overlie other content as may be intended b... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7770126 | Assisting user interface element use Methods of controlling the display and use of a UI element are disclosed. In an embodiment, the UI element may configured so that it initially maintains a topmost position but eventually allows other applications to assume the topmost position. In an embodiment, the... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7752565 | Graphical user interface for displaying objects First user-generated input is received that selects a first element in a graphical user interface identifying a work area. In response, a plurality of second elements characterizing categories of objects associated with the work area are displayed in the graphical u... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743336 | Widget security A widget security system, method and computer-readable medium detects a security event associated with a widget, assesses the risk associated with the security event, and initiates a security action based on the assessed risk. ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7698627 | Method, program, and device for analyzing document structure A device, a control method, and a program to increase the accuracy of voice read-out and text mining by automatically structuring a presentation file. The arrangement and practice of the invention involves an overlap grouping part for extracting overlap information ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7552396 | Associating screen position with audio location to detect changes to the performance of an application A method for monitoring the performance of an application comprises determining an output of an application that requires monitoring, assigning an audible sound to the output, positioning an output display window at a desired location on a performance monitoring scr... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7523405 | Displaying 2D graphic content using depth wells Displaying the relative depth of 2D image objects while preserving the visual attributes of the objects is disclosed. After an object group is determined, the members of the object group are temporarily moved away from a center location while preserving the object g... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7480869 | Method and apparatus for displaying status of hierarchical operations A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are disclosed for displaying the true status of hierarchical operations being performed in a data processing system. For example, a Z-order layering technique can be used to display simultaneously on a screen the status... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7389475 | Method and apparatus for managing input focus and Z-order An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7275169 | Graphical view of shutdown process A method of controlling shutdown of processes on equipment powered through a UPS comprises: providing a graphical display system and a graphical pointing device; displaying on the graphical display system a graphic having a time access and a process access; arrangin... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269796 | Method for infrastructure quick view In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method is presented for viewing information acquired from an integrated network. A plurality of modules (client/server methods) is used by an end user to access information in the integrated network. The i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7124373 | System and method for rearranging run-time ordering of open tasks Provided for run time ordering open tasks are a status bar; a plurality of task tabs presented in the status bar in sequential order, with a task tab for each open task within an open application; a content window for displaying task content associated with a curren... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7061498 | Screen display processing apparatus, screen display processing method and computer program In order to efficiently conduct the display processing of a GUI screen by suppressing the drawing of unnecessary objects, the objects are, first, searched from the front toward the rear according to a reverse painter's algorithm while tracing a z-order for processin... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053905 | Screen display processing apparatus, screen display processing method and computer program In order to efficiently conduct the display processing of a GUI screen by suppressing the drawing of unnecessary objects, the objects are, first, searched from the front toward the rear according to a reverse painter's algorithm while tracing a z-order for processin... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6928619 | Method and apparatus for managing input focus and z-order An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6914608 | Screen display processing apparatus, screen display processing method and computer program In order to efficiently conduct the display processing of a GUI screen by suppressing the drawing of unnecessary objects, the objects are, first, searched from the front toward the rear according to a reverse painter's algorithm while tracing a z-order for processin... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915489 | Image browsing using cursor positioning Image browsing through memory-stored items, such as a library of images or desktop windows, is efficiently performed by arranging images in partially overlapping fashion and generating a second-level image for each overlapped image that is contacted by a user-manipu... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6671855 | Outline information generating apparatus and computer-readable recording medium recording thereon outline information generating program A document outlining any work done on a workspace is to be automatically generated. A workspace history managing part holds the present and past states of a workspace together with history information on the manipulation performed on the workspace. A synt... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6622126 | Segment migration A system, program, and method which makes segment migration, the movement of individuals between segments over time, easily trackable, and provides a visualization that makes the results of the analyses useful. The preferred embodiment tracks which people... | 09/16/2003 |
| 5257113 | Video mixing technique using JPEG compressed data An apparatus and method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen. With this invention, a stream of image data for each window is divided into coding intervals, and each coding intervals is then compressed and mixed. The mixed compressed d... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5129054 | Specifying 3D reference points in 2D graphic displays Correlation of two-dimensional displayed points of an axonometric projection with corresponding three-dimensional points of the projected shapes. A point on a display screen surface is selected and the screen coordinates of the points of the three-dimensi... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4649513 | Apparatus and method for processing system printing data records on a page printer A method and a system for creating visual displays in a visual display device of data from an input data set. First, at least one of a plurality of stored sources of resource information is selected. Each of these sources is defined by and under the contr... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4635049 | Apparatus for presenting image information for display graphically Pixel information for a graphics display apparatus is stored in a bit map memory which may be considered as grouped into a number of bit planes corresponding to different separable surfaces or color patterns to be displayed by the apparatus. Information f... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4621319 | Personal development system A microcomputer development system in which two jobs, such as a source program and an assembler program, can be run and monitored simultaneously. A CRT screen (10) is split so as to display information from both processor A (16) and processor B (18). A ke... | 11/04/1986 |
