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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146009 | Real time map rendering with data clustering and expansion and overlay Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8108788 | Method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation in a user interface The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation on a user interface in order to select a feature by combining object fields. Bars where at least one of them is scrollable, have object fields which overlap and combine each o... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103964 | Parameter editor and signal processor A device editing a value of a parameter according to an operation by a user operates in a normal mode and in a detailed edit mode. In the normal mode, according to an operation sensed by a touch panel, the position of a cursor in a main screen displayed on a display... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8082512 | Fractal display advertising on computer-driven screens Techniques are disclosed for providing additional data within a document. Such techniques include providing a first document with a sub-region on a user interface, wherein the sub-region is associated with additional data. Techniques further include identifying an a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8046707 | Medical imaging apparatus which displays predetermined information in differentiable manner from others A medical imaging apparatus for generating medical information includes an input unit, a processor, and a display. The input unit is operated by a user and is configured to input an instruction. The processor is configured to process a first part of display informat... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8020111 | System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activities The present invention relates to a system and methodology to assist users with data access activities and that includes such activities as routine web browsing and/or data access applications. A coalesced display or montage of aggregated information is provided that... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7984381 | User interface A user interface with a display and user input for a mobile telephone that provides a set of icons or other user selectable objects in a number of different idle mode screens. The user interface has two modes. In a focused mode, the user input can change focus so th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7921372 | System and method for pinning tabs in a tabbed browser The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for pinning a tab in a tabbed browser. Briefly stated, browsing software is configured to recognize a “pin” event, such as a hot key, a menu selection, and the like. Upon recognizing the pin... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7900155 | System and method for providing information about an operation's applicability to an item A system and method for providing information about an operation's applicability to an item. A processor may provide a list of selectable items in a display area and may provide for each of the listed items, in response to receiving a command to perform an operation... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7870501 | Method for hollow selection feedback An improved approach to highlighting a graphical object in a graphical user interface is disclosed. A body of a highlighted graphical object may, upon selection or highlighting, be changed to a transparent color, and a graphical outline, or “halo,” is added surr... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7793223 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing user focus change between applications Methods, systems and computer program products for managing user focus change between applications on a computer are provide. A current user focus application is identified that is executing on the computer and has a current user focus. A current state of execution ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7747960 | Control for, and method of, operating at least two medical systems A control for, and method of, operating at least two medical systems, each of which generates its own visual display output and accepts commands from an input device. The control includes a display, having an active display area, and at least one inactive display ar... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7735016 | Directional focus navigation A rendering engine that supports directional focus navigation, in response to a directional input, shifts the focus to an appropriate focusable element. The rendering engine determines one or more focusable elements that are candidates to receive the focus based on ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7661069 | System and method for visually expressing user interface elements A method of visually expressing user interface elements on a display is provided which emphasizes those user interface elements which a user would be more interested in and deemphasizes those user interface elements which a user would be less interested in. Certain ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7636897 | System and method for property-based focus navigation in a user interface An improved system and method for focus navigation behavior specification in a user interface is provided. To this end, an application may include declarations that may associate a focus navigation resource with a user interface object and a focus navigation behavio... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7627831 | Interactive techniques for organizing and retrieving thumbnails and notes on large displays The present invention relates to techniques for supporting organizational, labeling and retrieval tasks on an electronic tabletop, wall or large display. In various embodiments of the invention, a dynamic visualization is used to show a current working set of docume... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7577916 | Method and apparatus for management and representation of dynamic context A technique for managing and representing dynamic context information. The system can manage local and remote activity information including sensor and computer application generated events such as calendar reminders. The technique allows users to store contextual r... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7577917 | User interface with looping menu A looping menu is implemented through appropriate spacing and positioning of menu elements and by masking repeating menu elements. The starting position of the mask may be calculated with respect to the width of the initial set of menu elements presented before enco... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7571393 | Method for navigation between elements on a page of content in a handheld device A method for navigating between elements on a page of content using an input in a handheld device. The method includes receiving an input corresponding to a navigation direction, determining an element that is radially closest to a current focus element in the navig... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7536650 | System and method that facilitates computer desktop use via scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the periphery The present invention relates to a system that facilitates multi-tasking in a computing environment. A focus area component defines a focus area within a display space—the focus area occupying a subset area of the display space area. A scaling component scales dis... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7512893 | System, a method and a computer program for transmitting an input stream A system for transmitting an input stream for use with an apparatus comprising a plurality of entities (e.g. applications, processes etc.) wherein each entity comprises an associated entity profile having associated profile data. The system comprises: a focus compon... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509586 | Method and system of calculating focus on an item There are presented a method and system of calculating focus applied to an item (102) among a group of items (101). In embodiments of the invention a focus measurement is decayed from all items (101) and added to the focus item (102). In ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7496853 | Method of managing items on a clipboard A method of enabling a user to manage items such as text, graphics image, audio clips, video clips etc. on a clipboard are provided. The method includes displaying a window having at least one option for managing the items on the clipboard and allowing the user to a... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7487460 | Interface for presenting data representations in a screen-area inset A method, application interface, and medium is provided for presenting a variety of data representations in a screen-area inset. The inset(s) can be one or more bounded portions of a graphical user interface. The inset offers a picture-in-picture type of functionali... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7461348 | Systems and methods for processing input data before, during, and/or after an input focus change event Systems, methods, and computer-readable media process computer input data (such as electronic ink data, speech input data, keyboard input data, etc.), including focus change data, in a manner so that the input insertion range better comports with the user's original... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7426697 | Multi-application tabbing system A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of associating a first window with at least one second window, the at least one second window being independent of and external to the first window, and combin... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7412664 | Mouse input panel windows class list A method for returning focus to a user interface window is disclosed. Information relating to each user interface window existing within a computer operating system is stored in a working database that is different from real-time user interface window information ma... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7398475 | Noisy operating system user interface An operating system shell provides on a display screen a graphical user interface through which a user interacts with the operating system. The operating system shell provides a background noisy display rendered on the display screen in accordance with a background ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7386803 | 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... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386801 | System and method that facilitates computer desktop use via scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the periphery The present invention relates to a system that facilitates multi-tasking in a computing environment. A focus area component defines a focus area within a display space—the focus area occupying a subset area of the display space area. A scaling component scales dis... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376908 | On-screen display image rendered with MPEG hardware In an implementation of on-screen display image rendered with MPEG hardware, image data corresponding to an image and formatted for on-screen display is received. MPEG frames are generated from the on-screen display image data and the MPEG frames are decoded to gene... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362311 | Single column layout for content pages A system and method for small computing devices that present a single column of content such as a web page such that a user need only scroll vertically to see the content. A parser converts HTML to CSS as necessary, and a single column style sheet modifies content f... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360166 | System, method and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of web pages and other sources A method, system and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of Internet web pages and other sources along with custom text messages has programming permitting a user to create custom selections of selected image, a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360156 | Method and system for performing actions on content in a region within a free form two-dimensional workspace A method and system are provided for performing actions on content in a region within a free form two-dimensional workspace. In a computer software application, a region is defined within the workspace, an action is associated with the region, content is received wi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356201 | Process and device for the automatic rectification of single-channel or multi-channel images A process and a device for the automatic rectification of images, where at least one image is rectified by a mapping function onto a reference image and at least some of the parameters of the mapping function are unknown are disclosed. The process includes at least ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353462 | Graphical user interface for accessing data A graphical user interface for accessing data can display hierarchical information in an efficient organized layout that users may easily navigate. In one embodiment, subject headings are contained within cells that form a column. Information related to the subject ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353461 | Method and apparatus for selection control The present invention provides a method and apparatus for selection control using a touch screen, wherein first and second intersecting bars (1, 2) are displayed, preferably near the edge, on the screen (3), and the first bar (1) displays contai... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346854 | Method and apparatus for facilitating entry of manually-adjustable data setting in an aircraft cockpit A system and method for facilitating user entry of a manually-adjustable data setting in an aircraft cockpit normally presents an image of the data setting on the display at a predetermined size. When the user commences to manipulate a control for manually adjusting... | 03/18/2008 |
