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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176440 | System and method of presenting search results In a particular embodiment, a system to present search results is disclosed that includes a search system to retrieve search results from multiple data sources and to extract data from the search results. The system also includes a visualization system to generate a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8151218 | Evaluation of graphical program nodes Evaluation of graphical program nodes. A first graphical program may be displayed on a display. The first graphical program may include a plurality of interconnected nodes which visually specifies functionality of the first graphical program. User input may be recei... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141002 | System and method for visual representation of a social network connection quality An apparatus, system, and method to generate a graphical representation of a social network. The computer program product includes a computer useable storage medium to store a computer readable program that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perfor... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132124 | Method and system for representing Web service activity through a user interface A method and apparatus for representing Web service activity utilizes a user interface. Components of the user interface present a changing graphical feature based on an activity indicator of the associated web service. The components may vary color or text indicato... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122381 | Context debugger Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for user a context debugger. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading data into a context hierarchical data structure into memory during an execu... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122380 | Multi-repository display system using separate presentation, adaptation and access layers In a software object display system, an adaptation layer is used to isolate the presentation layer from expectations of the structure of the software objects displayed. A small set of data can be transferred between the adaptation layer and the presentation layer in... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112458 | User segmentation user interface A facility for defining a distinguished segment of individuals within a population of individuals is described. The facility displays a prompt for user input specifying a natural-language characterization of a segment membership criterion for identifying individuals... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108799 | Remoting of windows presentation framework based applications in a non-composed desktop Described are systems and methods for remoting applications, such as those based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). The systems and methods are based on remoting information associated with a structural representation. The structural representation correspo... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099681 | Systems and methods for propagating alerts via a hierarchy of grids The present solution addresses the displaying of multiple levels of information in a constrained display footprint in a manner that allows a user to be vigilant over the information. Systems and methods are described herein for organizing data and information querie... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099682 | Proxies for viewing hierarchical data A display area displays a subset of a set of items. Items may be the ancestor or descendant of one or more other items. As an ancestor item having one or more visible descendant items becomes not visible, for example by scrolling outside the display area, a proxy in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095893 | Providing an interactive and customizable organization tree having communication options A highly interactive directory tree can be provided through a client user interface. A user can access an organization's records through, for example, a web-based user interface on the client computer system. The user interface can be configured to display a directo... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095514 | Treemap visualizations of database time Particular embodiments generally relate to displaying database time using a treemap. A set of database time values is determined for a set of dimensions. The database time values measure performance of one or more databases by the time the database takes to respond ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8074183 | Image formation device and its control method An image formation device having a hierarchically structured function setting menu in which plural function setting items including a function setting item for an optional device are managed in a hierarchical structure, the hierarchically structured function setting... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065339 | Hierarchy modification A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060542 | Template-based development of servers A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055993 | Selecting and displaying descendant pages In an embodiment, a link to a current page is received from a user. In response to receiving the link, a descendant page of the current page is selected that meets a policy associated with the domain of the current page. The current page and the descendant page are ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051389 | Methods of displaying resources of overlapping but separate hierarchies A method of using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to display relationships amongst resources of a system can include illustrating at least two overlapping but separate hierarchies in the same mosaic-like graphic, each hierarchy representing one or more of the relat... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046720 | Graphical system and method for editing multi-layer data packets A graphical system and method for creating and editing packets of data is disclosed, which displays on a first pane of a computer window a hierarchical order of all of the protocol layers and protocol fields of a data packets, and displays on a second pane of the sa... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042065 | Smart copy/paste of graphical nodes When using graphical diagrams, cutting and pasting operations may take advantage of predefined relationships to intelligently insert and remove items from the diagram. A text data model may be interpreted sequentially or hierarchically to construct various diagrams.... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037425 | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling presentation and selection of objects that are digital images depicting subjects The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling presentation and selection of objects that are digital images depicting subjects. According to one aspect, a plurality of objects arranged in a plurality of ve... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028250 | User interface having a carousel view for representing structured data A carousel view is described. In an implementation, a method includes determining a number of items that are included in data. A carousel is then generated for output in a user interface. The carousel has a plurality of bins, each of which representing a correspondi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020118 | Presentation of items arranged in a hierarchy An aspect of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for presenting items in a hierarchy comprising parent items and sub-items. The method comprises the steps of: identifying one or more parent items in the hierarchy, wherein all sub-items of th... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010909 | Derived hierarchy methods and system for definition, visualization and editing of data A method, system, and program product for creating a logical hierarchy for visualization and editing of data stored in a relational database. A plurality of data entities and relationships are first determined. A plurality of information on the structure of the rela... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010575 | System and method for redistributing interest in a hierarchical data structure representation A system and method for redistributing interest in a hierarchical data structure representation is provided. A data representation of a hierarchical data structure includes depth levels having one or more blocks of sibling nodes associated with node interest charact... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7984388 | System and method for partially collapsing a hierarchical structure for information navigation A partially collapsing hierarchical display system aids information navigation by providing a dynamic mechanism for labeling items with one or more states. In one embodiment, states comprise “hidden”, “visible” and “unmarked”. An expanded list of items d... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979808 | Navigational tools for large trees This disclosure describes, generally, tools for navigation of tree structures. For example, a software application comprising a user interface for allowing a user to navigate a tree structure is described. The user interface comprises a graphical element including t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970764 | GUI for subject matter navigation using maps and search terms A system, method and computer program product for navigating categorized information, including (a) a two-dimensional map displayed to a user on a screen, the map showing search terms relating to a subject matter, where the display of the search terms corresponds to... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962859 | Display of hierarchical data with non-numeric measures A method and system for displaying hierarchical data. An orthogonal table structure, which includes a row structure S1, a column structure S2, and an array structure S3, is displayed. S1 and S2 include hierarchical levels of a firs... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962860 | Selective detailed display of devices in a network There is described a method, to a program and to a system for graphically displaying and projecting at least one network of devices of an automation system, a high density of information usually occurring at the user interface. To allow a user to selectively display... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949964 | System and method for visualization of node-link structures A method of visualizing a node-link structure includes determining a radius for at least one level of a circular tree obtaining data identifying a first node within the node-link structure, determining a first position of the first node, the first position being a c... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949946 | Layout and line routing composition The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for the facilitating the layout and composition of graphics. Embodiments of the present invention allow declarative input for creation and modification of layout compositions and also a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7934157 | Utilization of tree view for printing data An information processing apparatus for generating, on the basis of specific data containing a plurality of record data, print data to be processed by a printing apparatus, includes a tree view display unit adapted to display, when record data in a specific field co... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925543 | Product characteristic selection website An Internet wire-mesh merchandising system comprises a webserver for generating a web presence. Potential customers are allowed to log-on to a website operated by a retailer, distributor, and manufacturer. An HTML product page includes navigation buttons that link t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913191 | Common input/output interface for application programs A user interface through which multiple application programs can be operated in common. An information processing apparatus provides a common input/output interface to multiple application programs. The apparatus includes a section which converts an application-spec... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908550 | Dynamic tree control system A dynamic tree control system includes a scripted program sent from a server, to be interpreted by a client browser. The program uses dynamic HTML and includes program code for displaying, under the control of the browser, a tree structure having one or more tree no... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908569 | Creating virtual targets in directory structures A method includes detecting a first user operation corresponding to a first item in a directory structure. The directory structure represents a hierarchical arrangement of a plurality of items, including the first item, in a memory. The first user operation indicate... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904833 | Electronic commerce GUI for displaying trading partners An electronic commerce method can include the step of determining a plurality of e-commerce partners. For each partner, a partner identifier can be presented within a commerce GUI. In the commerce GUI, the partner identifier can be an expandable node. An expansion o... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7870508 | Method and apparatus for controlling display of data on a display screen In one embodiment, a method for controlling display of data includes identifying a data item selected by a user from multiple data items displayed on a display screen, and modifying the appearance of the multiple data items. The method further includes causing the m... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870509 | Method and apparatus for improving the visibility of a treemap The visibility of a treemap is improved by offsetting the area of a parent node relative to a bounding box containing all of its child nodes while constructing the treemap, so that a part of the bounding box lies outside the area of the parent node, and the area of ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870510 | Method and apparatus for generating and managing parts-configuration information An information output device, an information display device, and an information management system for the efficient management of the parts of an industrial product. Information about the parts constituting the product is included in a table at the engineering stage... | 01/11/2011 |
