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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190474 | Engagement-based compensation for interactive advertisement Systems and methods for dynamically sizing, structuring and operating advertisements that include a variety of content, including interaction prompts and other elements, which enable an engagement-based revenue generation model. According to one embodiment, a comput... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7966576 | Method and system for moving an icon on a graphical user interface A method of providing a graphical user interface includes displaying a graphic representation of a data object at an initial location, receiving a command selecting the data object from a user, moving the graphical representation of the data object towards a destina... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7934168 | Storage medium storing program and information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes an LCD and a touch panel, for example. On the LCD, a plurality of operation items making up of a series of operating procedures by means of a touch panel are displayed, and a current operation item out of them is highligh... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7840911 | Method and apparatus for enhanced browsing A method and apparatus for enhanced browsing of electronic data (e.g., web pages, documents, electronic mail). When a first page is displayed in a browser, content identified by links to other pages is prefetched. If the page contains a list of links (e.g., search r... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7721227 | Method for describing alternative actions caused by pushing a single button A method, apparatus, and software are presented for a device to provide information about operation of a button during operation of the button. The button performs a first action if the button has been operated a first way, and performs a second alternative action i... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7594190 | Apparatus and method for user interfacing Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for user interfacing. The user interfacing method of a portable terminal with a pointing device includes checking whether or not pointing through the pointing device has occurred, and removing a current image while distorting ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7577921 | Method and system for performing search using acronym Techniques for facilitating efficient local search using acronym are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a graphic user interface is provided to accept inputs from a user; letters successively entered as the inputs from the user are received; and t... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7512898 | User interface with multi-state menu A user interface having a persistent graphical interface element is disclosed. The element may have an appearance of a mechanical structure that traverses one or more displayed tracks. Movement along the tracks may be animated in response to navigation commands. Sel... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7401299 | Method and apparatus for providing a presumptive drafting solution A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a presumptive drafting solution. Input from a cursor control device is received, wherein the input reflects a movement in a computer drawing program of a cursor over a drawing having one or more geometric... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7359768 | Route input system A software-enabled Route Input System (RIS) process facilitates consistent communication among the various entities involved in route creation, where the entities have different tasks and objectives. The primary teams are the process flow definers (IE), individual p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7324958 | Information administering system for an eating house A customer of an eating house orders refreshments by pressing a first touch panel provided at a customer's seat, watching a liquid-crystal monitor on which a menu of the refreshment and an average cooking time thereof are displayed. A cook inputs cooking-state infor... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7284206 | Image processing apparatus, its control method, and storage medium An object of this invention is to process image data in which a plurality of link destinations are set in one region. Another object of this invention is to allow the user intuitively to recognize the setup states of links, since link regions have different display ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284209 | Managing position and size for a desktop component In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the d... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269504 | System and method for assigning a level of urgency to navigation cues System and method for guiding a driver of a vehicle (20) from a starting point to a destination point using an assignment of levels of urgency of navigation cues. The system comprises a navigation unit (38), a controller (22) and a user interfac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251693 | System and method for data quality management and control of heterogeneous data sources System and method for data quality management and control of heterogeneous data systems. In a preferred embodiment, the system functions as a resource management tool that simplifies the process of managing data systems. More specifically, the system provides connec... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243346 | Customized library management system A customized library management method and system generates a customized class library needed for executing an application in a client system. In response to an identification of a given application, the server determines the appropriate classes and methods to inclu... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231611 | Apparatus and method for dynamically building a context sensitive composite icon A method and apparatus for dynamically building a context sensitive composite icon are provided. A base icon is used to represent a particular object in a graphical user interface. This base icon has addition points where icon additions may be attached to the base i... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228507 | Methods and systems for navigating a workspace When a user is engaged in sensemaking using a media, the user's work involves navigating to previously visited view places in the workspace. To achieve this, a workspace is navigated by obtaining a history list that may include a degree of interest and/or location i... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7203577 | Methods and systems for displaying the source of aircraft control instructions Methods and systems for displaying the source of aircraft control instructions are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment to the invention includes receiving a first target to which an aircraft will be automatically directed upon authorization from an... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7168047 | Mouse having a button-less panning and scrolling switch A mouse for controlling movements on a display screen is disclosed. The mouse includes a housing that is gripped by a user during manipulation of the mouse and a sensor configured to detect the presence of a user's hand or portions thereof located outside of and in ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7130846 | Intelligent default selection in an on-screen keyboard Systems and methods are described for intelligent default selection of characters to be entered via an on-screen keyboard. Based on one to several criteria, a character most likely to be selected for entry via the on-screen keyboard during a search request is determ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117445 | Multi-mode communication apparatus and interface for contacting a user A system and method for providing multi-mode communication options on a data processing device. A method according to one embodiment of the invention includes: receiving an incoming electronic message having an identifiable sender address; querying data storage to d... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7107546 | Toggleable widget for a user interface A composite interface widget for toggleable entry fields that minimizes real estate and allows the entry field to toggle between a special kind of input that is either a predefined value or a value specified by the user. The widget presents a local or noninherited s... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107545 | System and method for providing a graphical user interface display with a conspicuous image element A system and a method are described for providing a graphical user interface display with a conspicuous image element. In one example, a particular image element is first identified. Predetermined rules are then applied to ensure that the particular image element in... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7073121 | Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary information provided from a server A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a server receives a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database. The server retrieves... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058904 | Operating method for miniature computing devices A method for the easy input and operation of miniature computing devices which allows for a plurality of input functions using only two buttons in a method of contextual navigation. The two buttons provide four different input functions which are continually graphic... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055105 | Drop-enabled tabbed dialogs The mouse cursor is moved over the register of a register dialog once a drop-and-drag action has been initiated, then the register under the mouse cursor is automatically moved to the foreground after a variable time interval, and the contents can thus be seen. Proc... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051286 | Method for altering a protocol in a magnetic resonance apparatus In a method for altering a protocol in a magnetic resonance apparatus a first parameter for the protocol and a second parameter for the protocol are displayed in a user interface display presentation. In this display presentation, a range of values for the first par... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043700 | Mobile client computer programmed to predict input A computer system preferably a mobile client computer, optimizes data handling and display through the use of predictive widgets. A predictive widget uses a predictive list of possible entries into a defined field of a form, as in a form filling application, to prov... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7017122 | Method for displaying menu screen of video apparatus A method for displaying a menu screen of a video apparatus which displays images, in which a finally selected menu of the menus displayed on a screen is displayed in a predetermined color, and the upper menus corresponding to the path of the finally selected menu ar... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010756 | Display operating system A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fing... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6961905 | Method and system for modifying an image on a web page An editing program establishes communication with a remote computer using an Internet protocol, downloads a web page containing one or more imported images and displays the web page on a user interface. As the user moves a cursor over an imported image, its appearan... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959421 | Quick click icons for workspace flow between views for major subsystems and views within a design tool A method and system for helping a user perform tasks in software. Graphic elements (e.g., icons) are rendered and displayed regardless of which task is being performed. An element can be either active or inactive; user selection of an element with the element active... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6928625 | Systems and methods for managing process control in a graphical user interface Systems and methods for managing process control in a graphical user interface are provided. One embodiment is a method for managing process control in a graphical user interface. Briefly described, one such method comprises the steps of: displaying a plurality of o... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6898765 | User friendly remote system interface with menu highlighting A system, method, and medium for enhancing a GUI and viewing environment for a computer user is disclosed. Enabling a user to fully navigate and operate a computer through the use of a remote control device, the present invention includes at least a PC mode of opera... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6654027 | Tool for three-dimensional analysis of a drawing A method and system for assisting a user in identifying an element of an object in various displayed views in a drawing of the object. A method is employed that will allow automatic highlighting of a selected edge of an object in each view, as well as sep... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6618062 | Method, system and program for specifying an electronic menu with food preferences from a personal storage device Food preferences for a particular customer are retrieved from a personal storage device, wherein the personal storage device is proffered from the particular customer. The food preferences for the particular customer are compared with multiple previously ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 5821927 | Web browser display indicator signalling that currently displayed web page needs to be refereshed from remote source Network browser applications are improved by providing visual status indications informing users that currently displayed pages are one of: old (outdated), partly old or new. Conventional browser applications load old or partly old page information from a... | 10/13/1998 |
| 4862390 | Method and apparatus for selection of one from a plurality of entries listed on a computer display Apparatus and method for selecting entries within a plurality of entries. The preferred embodiment of the invention includes a search control processor which causes an edit box and a list box to be displayed on a display. In the list box is displayed a su... | 08/29/1989 |
