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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6968502 | Information processing apparatus for displaying enlarged characters or images An information processing apparatus having the function of displaying at least a character in an enlarged form and having the contents of display thereof being easily recognizable. A character at an intended point is displayed in an enlarged form according to a desi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966037 | Method and apparatus for scrollable cross-point navigation in a calendar user interface Method and apparatus for displaying an electronic calendar in a scrollable cross-point navigation image having two bars, each containing panels corresponding to a separate folder or entry of the calendar's hierarchy of folders and entries. At the intersection of the... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961906 | Method and system for switching between windows in a multiwindow computer environment A method and system for switching between windows running on a multiwindow computer system that retains the user's points of interest is disclosed. The method and system includes allowing a user to register at least one specific point of interest in each of the wind... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6952806 | Medium containing information gathered from material including a source and interface for graphically displaying the information An electronic medium is a new form of publication for a source material, such as a book. The medium includes information about features of the source material and features of secondary information related to the source material. The medium can be used with a visuali... | 10/04/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6928623 | Method and system for selecting a target window for automatic fill-in An improved data processing system in which a user of a GUI can easily designate one of a plurality of windows to be automatically filled in with predetermined, pre-stored information. A method and system are disclosed for selection of a target window from among a p... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6915491 | Method and apparatus for intuitionally moving the focus between a window area and a tool bar A method and apparatus for moving the focus between the window area and the tool bar, said focus movement can be performed on an information apparatus, such as a set top box (STB). The present invention enables a user to control the focus, the window area, and the t... | 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 |
| 6907574 | System and method of hyperlink navigation between frames A system and method for navigating between hyperlinks and frames on a Web page within a Web browser in a client system in communication with one or more server systems. A plurality of hyperlinks and frames are displayed on a display of a user device via the Web brow... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6892360 | Focus traversal mechanism for graphical user interface widgets Selectively determining a particular graphical user interface widget to receive focus based upon user-entered directional information. When a user enters information concerning which direction to move the focus of the widgets, such as by manipulating arrow keys, the... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6883145 | Arrow logic system for creating and operating control systems A graphic programming system for associating distinctive arrow appearances to specific transaction(s) that the arrow may convey among and between on-screen objects. The distinctive appearance features include arrow color, arrow style, and double-headed arrows, among... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6836870 | Method and system for incorporating a dynamic situation display in a powerpoint slide show presentation A slide show presentation “plug-in” that permits the user to control an animated dynamic situation display during a PowerPoint slide-show presentation without interrupting the slide-show mode to edit the slide. A dynamic situation display file is encapsulated in... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6657644 | Layer viewport for enhanced viewing in layered drawings A method and system of displaying graphical images in a computer graphics system is disclosed. In a display of a graphical image including a plurality of graphic layers, the method and system comprise creating a layer viewport in response to a user intera... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654037 | Embedded windows in background image A method for creating a graphical user interface. The method includes the steps of sizing and locating a process window, which is created by an application. The method creates a graphical representation of the process window and associates information wit... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6654038 | Keyboard navigation of non-focusable components A method for keyboard navigation in a graphical user interface, including defining a key event dispatcher for focus ordering of at least one non-focusable component, configured to recognize a special mode entry character and a special mode exit character,... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6614455 | Directional navigation within a graphical user interface In a graphical user interface, preferably for use with a television and set top box, menu navigation is achieved through use of a directional input. From the directional input and a current position, a fitness measure is derived for each menu option. From... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6039047 | Method and system for changing the appearance of a control region of a medical device such as a diagnostic medical ultrasound system A system and method are provided to allow a user to control the appearance of a control region displayed along with a medical image on a medical device. In one preferred embodiment, when the user positions a pointer over a control region, the appearance o... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5847709 | 3-D document workspace with focus, immediate and tertiary spaces A three dimensional document workspace for interacting with large numbers of document objects. A document object may be a document or a document collection. The document workspace is divided hierarchically in terms of interaction rates. A focus space is w... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5812132 | Windowed computer display A method of displaying graphical data on a display device of a computer system and a computer system employing the method. The method comprises the steps of: (1) forming a first window on the display device, the first window capable of displaying data ass... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5621878 | Method and apparatus or manipulating data from a suspended application program on a computer-controlled display system A method and apparatus for selecting data in an application which is not a currently active context. The method comprises a user selecting information within a window under control of a first application program and moving the information to a second wind... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5621880 | Method and apparatus for providing contextual navigation to historical data Automatic navigation to a window which contained a user specified search criteria at some time in history. A user may invoke a number of application programs which display various windows, panels, icons, full screen sessions, and other objects onto a mult... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5581686 | Method and system for in-place interaction with contained objects A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has con... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5559533 | Virtual memory hardware cusor and method A hardware cursor is implemented on a typical video display controller, and uses an unused portion of video RAM as cursor memory to store the cursor information. Since the cursor memory may be located at any unused location of video RAM, it is a virtual h... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5559942 | Method and apparatus for providing a note for an application program A method and apparatus for providing a note on an application program includes noticing a note anchor object associated with a data file displayed by an application program on a computer screen and displaying a note slip image over the displayed data and ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5555364 | Windowed computer display A method of displaying graphical data on a display device of a computer system and a computer system employing the method. The method comprises the steps of: (1) forming a first window on the display device, the first window capable of displaying data ass... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5544299 | Method for focus group control in a graphical user interface A method of operating a computer having a graphical display device to allow a user to input data. The user is provided with an entry focus group and one or more secondary focus groups, no more than one of the focus groups being active at any given time. E... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5544305 | System and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations A system and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations comprises an authoring editor. The authoring editor presents an authoring user interface with a comic book metaphor form for the creation of simulations. The aut... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5534887 | Locator icon mechanism A display apparatus and method that provides a windowing interface that gives the user the capability to identify and locate the particular window associated with a bell tone emitted by an application program. When a particular application emits a bell to... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5524060 | Visuasl dynamics management for audio instrument A digital audio gain control system has an operator interface with a CPU, RAM storage, and input devices for a user to store transfer characteristics relating gain to be applied to an incoming audio signal to the signal strength of that incoming signal. A... | 06/04/1996 |
| 4484302 | Single screen display system with multiple virtual display having prioritized service programs and dedicated memory stacks Multiple virtual images are built on a display screen of a text processing system by a display access method (DAM) program running interrupt identified service programs. Each of the service programs is provided with stack memory elements for retaining dat... | 11/20/1984 |
