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| 8150860 | Ranking authors and their content in the same framework One or more server devices may simultaneously calculate first ranking scores for a group of users and second ranking scores for a group of comments authored by the group of users. The calculating may occur during a same process. The one or more server devices may fu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8095884 | Automatic alignment with subcomponents on a visual layout A processing device may include a WYSIWYG tool for designing two-dimensional visual layouts. The processing device may display a visual layout including a first object component and a second object component. The first object component, or an object subcomponent the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091038 | Adaptive graphical interface An adaptive graphical interface may include determining a first visual characteristic of a background portion, selecting a second visual characteristic contrasting with the first visual characteristic, and presenting a graphical feature portion, the graphical featur... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078981 | Graphics display system with graphics window control mechanism A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip processes graphics images organized as... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065623 | Method for designing a customized work area A system for designing a work area enables a user to initially specify a particular item to be designed into the work area from a number of different items contained in the system. The system utilizes stored information concerning the item to graphically display the... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7904823 | Transparent windows methods and apparatus therefor A method for optimizing pen-based annotations on a non-pen enabled window. The method includes starting a visible non-pen-enabled window further including position indicia and size indicia; starting a transparent pen-enabled window; and associating the visible non-p... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7849414 | Edge anti-aliasing Techniques for anti-aliasing of graphical objects. A graphical object to be displayed on a display image may be modified to include a border region at least partially surrounding the object. The color of the border region may be selected based on the color of the ba... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7831922 | Write anywhere tool A transparent graphical user interface that overlays the user interfaces of other applications. The transparent user interface receives handwriting input and displays handwriting objects represented by handwriting input received in the area of the transparent handwr... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7818683 | Methods and systems for representing breadcrumb paths, breadcrumb inline menus and hierarchical structure in a web environment A method of a navigational path includes enabling a user to successively display a plurality of web pages; maintaining a full breadcrumb path that includes a link to each of the previously displayed pages; displaying a shortened breadcrumb path on a current page, th... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7747949 | System and method comprising an electronic document from physical documents A method for processing a physical document. A record is created in a selections table stored in a user device. Creating the record includes entering into the record: a document number that identifies both the physical document and an electronic document that is an ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739613 | Graphics tiering strategy incorporating bitmaps and window geometries Various embodiments employ a graphics tiering approach that utilizes multiple different tiers, each of which defines how a user interface is presented to a user. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a higher end tier is provided and utilizes a combination o... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7673250 | Systems and methods for a dimmable user interface Systems and methods for a dimmable user interface. A user interface is simultaneously displayed with video content or other data in the same window of a display device. The user interface has a level of transparency that is user adjustable. The user can thus make th... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7644369 | Controlling display screen legibility Computer screen legibility is controlled. A logically topmost software window of a particular color and of a certain transparency is created. Additionally, a pattern is used to further control legibility. The window allows screen objects logically beneath it on a z-... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7620905 | System and method of windows management A system and method of windows management. The system and method comprises at least one window having information displayed thereon and a processor for determining an application type associated with the at least one window and rendering the at least one window at a... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7607101 | Method and apparatus for communicating using a display Disclosed is a visual method of communicating an abnormal situation (e.g., the crashed or downed state) of the computer system including a display. The system status is thus indicated to the user. Upon a system crash or downed state, the display entirely or in part ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7574665 | Graphically represented dynamic time strip for displaying user-accessible time-dependant data objects The invention provides graphically representing time dependent information or data objects in a sequential manner using a dynamic time strip having implicit or explicit indications of time. The dynamic time strip is a linear graphical strip comprising graphical repr... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7530027 | Graphics display system with graphics window control mechanism A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip processes graphics images organized as... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7429993 | Method and system for presenting functionally-transparent, unobtrusive on-screen windows Selected visual content is unobtrusively presented on a computing system display, so as not to obscure or prevent access to underlying content. The selected visual content may be designated from among various types of visual content by a user or by a program. The se... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7418668 | Glass appearance window frame colorization A method for changing a color value and/or level of opacity value of a glass appearance window frame for an application window is described. The method includes steps of determining a defined color value and a defined level of opacity value to apply to a glass appea... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412663 | Dynamic reflective highlighting of a glass appearance window frame Aspects for changing a reflective highlight on a glass appearance window frame of an application window are described. An illustrative method includes steps of displaying a first reflective highlight on a glass appearance window frame of an application window, calcu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7389476 | Display including a plurality of display panels A display allowing further miniaturization when including a plurality of display panels is obtained. This display comprises a first display panel formed on a substrate and a second display panel formed on the same substrate on a region different from that formed wit... | 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 |
| 7379977 | System and method for display of multiple electronic pages A system and method for providing a distributed software application is disclosed. The application includes multiple browser window components that run together within a single browser window. Each component manages and displays data independently, so that a series ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7359949 | Remotely controlling a UNIX-based system Remotely controlling a UNIX-based system includes prompting a first user at a UNIX-based machine for permission for a second user at a machine remotely-located from the UNIX-based machine to control the UNIX-based machine and if the first user grants permission, ena... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355609 | Computing visible regions for a hierarchical view A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment determines the visible regions of potentially overlapping views and writes the visible regions to an output device. The visible regions may be determined using the visible-above region asso... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352366 | Dynamic rendering of ink strokes with transparency Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For example, the ink stroke may be dynamically rendered as a stroke having... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346484 | Monitor manager that creates and executes state machine-based monitor instances in a digital simulation The monitor manager manages the execution of monitors during the simulation of a digital design. The monitor manager (20) includes an instance generator (32) that creates executable instances (38) of monitors that may be time-dependent monitors,... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343415 | Display of software notes indicating that content from a content provider site is available for display First program code is executed at a content recipient so as to identify a content provider having posted content of interest to the content recipient. Second program code is executed at the content recipient so as to automatically access the content provider and ini... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343562 | Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. overlaid, Information-bearing windows whose contents remain unchanged for a predetermined period of time become translucent. The translucency can be graduated so that, over time, if the windo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342584 | Method and computer program for implementing interactive bargraphs of any shape or design on a graphical user interface A method and computer program are provided for implementing an interactive bargraph that includes associating an interactive bargraph with an independent touch map image having a plurality of pixel values, displaying the interactive bargraph, determining a current l... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343566 | Method and apparatus for displaying a window for a user interface Methods and apparatuses to display windows. In more than one embodiments of the invention, a window is closed automatically (e.g., after a timer expires, or when a condition or criterion is met, or a system input is received) without user input. In some examples, th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7290213 | Method for perusing information An information perusal program arranges information within a virtual space, where the information is arranged in uniquely specified storage positions. The information perusal program detects a position specified arbitrarily by the user within the virtual space. The ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274377 | Viewport panning feedback system A graphical user interface (GUI) displaying a viewport includes a panning control region defined within an outer boundary of the viewport within the GUI. The panning control region includes multiple segments, each of the multiple segments corresponding to a panning ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269790 | Method and system for in-register processing of print data In a method and system for processing print data, the print data is displayed on a display device before printing, and the print data is displayed together with a check device or reticule that is displaceable at the display device. Both the print data as well as the... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265762 | Method and apparatus for representing data using layered objects A multilayer data animation program is provided that controls the simultaneous display of objects that represent complex or interrelated data, where the appearance of the objects may change over time to reflect changes in the data. The multilayer data animation prog... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7246329 | Multiple menus for use with a graphical user interface An approach for using multiple menus with a graphical user interface is disclosed. A multiple menu comprises a menu panel with two or more selection regions, each of which is associated with a base menu. A user requests the menu panel without selecting a menu object... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236180 | Dynamic rendering of ink strokes with transparency Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For example, the ink stroke may be dynamically rendered as a stroke having... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231588 | Video display apparatuses and display methods thereof Video display apparatuses and display methods thereof. The apparatus includes a first buffer, a second buffer, a third buffer, a blending engine and a display engine. The first buffer stores a video source. The second buffer stores on screen display (OSD) source dat... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7219308 | User interface for media player program Methods and system for enhancing user experience when rendering digital media content. Defining a visible region of the window in which a media player user interface (UI) is presented to clip undesirable portions of the window provides an improved media player UI. F... | 05/15/2007 |
