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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185842 | Electronic device and user interface display method thereof An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, organize a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8051385 | Content selection and aggregated search results presentation on a handheld electronic device An electronic device includes a content display for presenting content. The electronic device also includes a control display for enabling selection of a portion of the content. The content includes a plurality of items. The control display also enables a plurality ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7979785 | Recognizing table of contents in an image sequence A user interface (e.g., a browser window) includes a display area for displaying an image (e.g., a book page image). The image can be rescaled based on the dimensions of the display area, one or more attributes of the image and other factors. In some implementations... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966569 | Method and system and program storage device for storing oilfield related data in a computer database and displaying a field data handbook on a computer display screen A computerized handbook known as an ‘i-Handbook’ is adapted to be stored in a memory of a computer system and displayed on a display screen of the computer system for assisting field personnel in the performance of their respective job related responsibilities. ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958447 | Method and system for page navigating user interfaces for electronic devices A method for providing navigational control of paginated electronic information, includes: loading paginated information into an electronic device capable of displaying paginated information in response to a user's selection; determining the total number of pages in... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7930324 | Information organization and navigation by user-generated associative overlays Digital information objects in a digital information space are linked through the use of an overlay. A dynamic association between an accessed digital information object and each concept node in the overlay is established if the accessed digital information object a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7849417 | Image display system, image display method and image display program An image display system includes a server having a first image database that stores a first image having a first file format for movable image display; a second image database that stores a second image having the same display contents as the first image and a secon... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7823078 | Note navigation in a business data processing application Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for business data processing. The techniques include displaying business data on a user interface through which users can view the business data and provide input modifying the busin... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7810042 | Page bar control Graphical user interfaces for computer display devices include a page bar control element that allows a user to easily and quickly navigate among the pages of a multiple page electronic document and/or among the pages of a plurality of electronic documents. In some ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797639 | Page bar control Graphical user interfaces for computer display devices include a page bar control element that allows a user to easily and quickly navigate among the pages of a multiple page electronic document and/or among the pages of a plurality of electronic documents. In some ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7783986 | Handheld electronic book reader with annotation and usage tracking capabilities A handheld electronic book reader, program product, and method incorporate enhanced annotation and/or usage tracking capabilities. Support is provided for user creation of “contexts” for defined terms in an electronic document. Moreover, annotation data such as ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761804 | Avoiding disorientation under discontinuous navigation in an image flipping system A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for avoiding disorientation under discontinuous navigation in an image flipping system. In one embodiment, the method comprises serially displaying a sequence of page images in an order; receiving a user input to stop seque... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7640513 | Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the di... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636886 | System and method for grouping and organizing pages of an electronic document into pre-defined categories A system and method for rearranging a plurality of pages of an electronic document is disclosed. The method might include the steps of providing a bookmark profile that includes a plurality of categories, receiving a description pertaining to one of the plurality of... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7555724 | Computer based browsing computer program product, system and method A computer based browsing computer program product, system and method arranges a set of information hosted on a computer into a book or a set of books, where each book includes a subset of the set of information, labels each book with a respective portion of the sub... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7392475 | Method and system for automatic insertion of context information into an application program module Context information surrounding an application program can be inserted into an electronic document in order to increase accuracy and efficiency in note taking. For example, in a meeting scenario where a slide presentation is being displayed, the present invention ca... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386804 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for controlling and browsing a virtual book A hardware and software system including a controller that can be operatively combined with several methods of display on a display screen under software and hardware control for the purpose of browsing through data stored in a memory device. The browsing of the dat... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369120 | Input pointer and input device An input pointer includes two top-surface switches and a rotary switch on the top surface of the main body, a protrusion on an imaginary center line on the bottom surface of the main body, and two bottom-surface switches at the sides of the protrusion. The two top-s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366759 | Method and system for characterizing relationships in social networks Relationships among members of a social network are automatically characterized by determining the pattern and purposes of electronic messages communicated between such members. By leveraging an organization's existing messaging infrastructure, the present invention... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359977 | Ubiquitous visited links Where a user logs on to a web page server, the server can maintain a history of links to web pages hosted by the server to indicate which links are visited by the user. In consequence, a user may log on to the web page server from any web page-enabled device and the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350143 | Method for page translation Various embodiments include a means for simultaneously displaying in an ebook both an ebook page number and its corresponding print version page number. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342569 | Method for flipping pages via electromechanical information browsing device A method for flipping pages of an electronic book via an electromechanical information browsing device that controls page flipping actions of information displayed as an e-book on a display device. The browsing device includes a controller that provides tactile feed... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339598 | System and method for automated product design Automated electronic document design systems and methods for combining identified images and layouts into electronic product templates for displaying to a user. A plurality of images and a plurality of layouts are retained. Stored images are identified based on keyw... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337389 | System and method for annotating an electronic document independently of its content A system, method, and apparatus for annotating an electronic document independently of its content is provided. According to one variation, a tablet and stylus-based computer is programmed with a document browser that permits a user to annotate documents viewed thro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333088 | Electromechanical information browsing device An electromechanical information browsing device that controls page flipping actions of information displayed as an e-book on a display device. The browsing device includes a controller that provides tactile feedback so as to lessen the user-interface differences be... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330176 | Method for displaying flipping pages via electromechanical information browsing device A method for displaying flipping pages of an electronic book via an electromechanical information browsing device that controls page flipping actions of information displayed as an e-book on a display device. The browsing device includes a controller that provides t... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7305618 | Methods for multimedia content repurposing Comprehensive multimedia content re-purposing relating to wireless communications employs content constructs that are compact representations of the content information. For video content, the constructs are content operators that represent 2D image regions and/or 3... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304677 | Customizing a digital camera based on demographic factors A method for customizing a camera for at least one particular demographic group is disclosed. The camera includes a programmable memory that stores at least one parameter value to control at least one operation of the camera. The method includes the steps of identif... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296224 | Method for assigning graphical images to pages A system and method for paginating objects, such as graphical images, within a predefined space, such as a viewable or printed page, is provided. The system and method includes substantially evenly distributing graphical images on a selected number of pages. Alterna... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296243 | Animating display motion Navigating on a display includes providing a navigation control operable to change a viewable portion of a page of information on a display from a first view to a second view. In response to operation of the navigation control, the display is animated to create an a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293244 | Computing device with user interface for navigating a contacts list A computing device comprises a display screen, the computing device is able to display on the screen a contact list automatically causes the relative prominence of one or more letters in one or more names to alter. For example, only the first letter of each name may... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290285 | Systems and methods for distributing and viewing electronic documents A system for distributing an electronic version of a printed document is disclosed. The system comprises a memory device storing at least one document file that is based at least in part on a source document, which is an electronic version of a printed document. The... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283129 | Display control device and reproduction display device for electronic books An electronic book display control device capable of solving the problem of a conventional page turning method of an electronic book device that pages are turned in accordance with a value predetermined by a speed controller and hence it is difficult to turn pages f... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269591 | Method and apparatus for providing a pay-for-service web site A web server for providing a pay-for-service web site is disclosed configured to execute an HTML front-end entry process configured for creating and storing a personal homepage for a owner. The web server is also configured to receive a fee for making the personal h... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269787 | Multi-document context aware annotation system A method for document annotation includes providing a contextual framework extending over multiple electronic documents. Annotations are input to a computer by a user with respect to two or more of the documents, while the user views the documents on a computer scre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266761 | Special API interface for interfacing an application with a TWAIN module, negotiating and presenting a user interface for inserting an image into a document Inserting images into documents. An image source device is made active with an application used to create text in a document. An application programming interface (API) module is accessed from within the application. The API interfaces the application with a TWAIN m... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260842 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for managing customer information A member-store functional unit transfers the name of a member store and the title of a campaign to an ID-assigning functional unit which assigns IDs to the title of the campaign and the name of the member store. The ID-assigning functional unit then transmits the ID... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260257 | System and method for whiteboard and audio capture A system that captures both whiteboard content and audio signals of a meeting using a digital camera and a microphone. The system can be retrofit to any existing whiteboard. It computes the time stamps of pen strokes on the whiteboard by analyzing the sequence of ca... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251786 | Meeting information Electronic note taking is enhanced by automatically modifying an electronic document corresponding to a user's meeting notes to include at least some data from an electronic calendar or scheduling system in which the user's meeting is scheduled. For example, when an... | 07/31/2007 |
