Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176441 | Information display device An information display device includes a monitor, an operator, a display processor for displaying, on the monitor, identification information of item groups and items in the lower hierarchy of an item group, an item group selector for selecting one item group in res... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171429 | Application navigation A method for operating a user interface for switching between computer applications is provided. The method may include displaying first, second and third navigation controls. The first navigation control may include entity selectors, the second navigation control m... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171428 | System and method for implementing data navigation interface An interactive user interface (UI) to manage searching of data is disclosed. The UI includes a first display panel configured to display a parent context view and a child context view thereon and a second display panel configured to display a diagram of an enlarged ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161411 | Graphical user interface for browsing, searching and presenting media items Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for reviewing, browsing, previewing and/or purchasing media items are also disclosed. The graphical user interfaces are suitable for reviewing or browsing numerous media items. The graphical user interfaces are also suitab... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161412 | Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing interactive content Exemplary embodiments include a system for providing interactive content including: an input for receiving a hot key signal related to interactive content, the hot key signal indicative of an availability and a location of an alternate content; and a processor which... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161413 | Method and system for providing user interface representing organization hierarchy Method and system for providing graphical user interface for displaying hierarchical charts. According to various embodiments, the present invention provides a graphical user interface where relational data are displayed as one or more hierarchical charts. A hierarc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156448 | Site navigation and site navigation data source A concept for providing hierarchical navigation information relative to one or more databases within a distributed computer system is described. In one aspect, this includes a process for hierarchically organizing bodies of information that includes: receiving a que... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8127252 | Method and system for presenting user interface (UI) information A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for providing a custom view of a set of user-interface elements (UI elements) to a requesting component. The method includes representing the UI elements as a raw tree structure composed of a set of nodes, which correspon... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122382 | Television broadcast receiver A television broadcast receiver has an operation section including up, down, left, and right cursor keys and a function of displaying an operation guide composed of contents of a plurality of pages. In the television broadcast receiver, in a state in which contents ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8091044 | Filtering the display of files in graphical interfaces System, computer readable medium, and method for filtering the display of file objects for computer systems. In one aspect, a method comprises displaying a plurality of selectable items responsive to user input, wherein each of the selectable items describes a diffe... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8074185 | System and method for displaying and manipulating hierarchically linked data in a genealogy database using a graphical interface A system and method for displaying, searching, manipulating and modifying of hierarchically linked genealogy data in a relational database on a computer system. A graphic representation of the data in the database is displayed on a computer display device. The syste... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074184 | Modifying electronic documents with recognized content or other associated data Systems and methods enhance editing capabilities associated with a wide variety of different types of electronic documents. Such systems and methods may include a processor that maintains an electronic document having a first portion (e.g., an individual word, chara... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8024672 | System and method for generating presentations A system and method allows a user to specify a presentation by arranging content into a hierarchical arrangement. The presentation is generated in response to the content and the hierarchical arrangement. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010910 | Breadcrumb list supplementing for hierarchical data sets A breadcrumb path for use in navigating a hierarchical data set may be supplemented with one or more supplemental breadcrumbs representing preferred locations within the hierarchical data set. The supplemental breadcrumb may represent a previously visited location w... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001489 | Element persistent identification Identifier information is generated for a user interface element of interest within a user interface of a computer program based on a description of a hierarchical element path comprising, e.g., some combination of parent elements that the user interface element inh... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992105 | System process and logic element for providing and managing record keeping applications A system, process and logic element are provided which can generate and manage an application framework by simultaneously managing the graphical user interface structures and corresponding data structures. In addition, it is possible to produce at least one list dat... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992106 | Menu trails for a portable media player A software and/or hardware facility for generating menu trails for a portable media player. A menu trail is a visual cue to a user, repeated on each menu item in the media player navigation interface, that highlights a path for the user to follow to a content item s... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975240 | Systems and methods for controlling a visible results set The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automatic display and management of data items associated with a hierarchical tree arrangement of folders and subfolders. A computerized interface for data presentation is provided having a sort... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962861 | Creating a sentence that describes a walk of a graph In an embodiment, a sentence is created that describes a walk of a graph. The graph includes a set of nodes and a set of edges that are incident to the nodes. The sentence includes label words that describe the nodes and relationship words that describe the edges. T... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954070 | Systems and methods for navigating graphical displays of buildings A display for identifying a floor of a building being monitored presents a plurality of groups of floors and a plurality of floors in a group. The groups can be of floors and selected plurality of floors automatically presented to identify one or more floors that ar... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7904834 | Business software navigation control A graphical user interface control with a plurality of elements can be used to traverse a software application used to effect business processes. In some variations, the control takes the shape of a compass rose with at least two opposite axes, the activation of whi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7886235 | Interactive document summarization A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882450 | Interactive document summarization A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary. ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865844 | Method and system for modifying properties of graphical user interface components A method, computer program product, and data processing system for modifying attributes of GUI components without invasive code modification are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a set of attributes for GUI components is loaded into memory from persistent storag... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7844637 | Method for managing keyboard navigation within a tree control structure user interface component via a linked list A method, data processing system and computer program product for maintaining/updating managing keyboard navigation using a linked list. In particular, a Dynamic Tree Control Linkage (DTCL) utility creates a doubly linked list with list nodes having assigned values ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831931 | Successively displaying panels in a computer user interface Successively displaying panels in a computer user interface. A method includes displaying a first panel of a plurality of panels. Each of the panels includes different information. The computer user interface has a plurality of navigation controls by which a user ca... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823087 | Method to enhance navigation and scalability in table and tree viewers A data model for navigating data. In a preferred embodiment, the data model abides rules that limit the total number of nodes displayable and that limit the number of child nodes displayable beneath a given parent. collapsed or folded nodes are replaced by embedded ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7823088 | System and method for a transparent record Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for a transparent record. A record is displayed in a graphical user interface. The record contains at least one container having one or more elements. In an embodiment, a read service accesse... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814438 | Contact page A computing system and a user interface display requested data corresponding with a contact at a display device. The requested data includes contact information, communication histories, and files associated with the contact. The requested data is obtained from one ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7743344 | Method for optimizing utilization of client capacity The present invention relates to a method for optimizing the use of client capacity when providing information contents to a user. First, two modes of navigation of the client are defined: a first, continuous navigation mode, characterized by restricted movement amo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743322 | Automatic photo album page layout A method for locating objects, such as images having fixed aspect ratios, within a predefined space, such as a printed page, is provided. The method comprises generating a binary tree structure comprising at least one node and a plurality of leaves, each leaf corres... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743345 | Display system for displaying key groups according to their functions Individual keys necessary for operations are grouped into key groups according to their functions. Key groups which do not fall within a display block allotted for all the keys are further divided into sub-groups. Switching keys for switching to other sub-groups are... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7735023 | Generic keyboard navigation Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for navigating user interface elements of a computer program application. A navigation key press of a navigation key is detected, where the navigation key has a group identifier. A sele... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730390 | Displaying text of video in browsers on a frame by frame basis A method, system, and computer program product for presenting text from multimedia data to a user is provided. In one embodiment, multimedia data containing associated text data is received by a data processing system. The associated text data is extracted from the ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725840 | System and method for modifying links within a web site An invention for customizing a web site by gathering information from a web site visitor's sessions while the user is using the web site. The visitor's session information is compared with expected visitor behavior, based on the present structure of the web site. Us... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7712051 | Keyboard navigation in hierarchical user interfaces Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for navigating user interface elements of a computer program application. In one aspect, a method includes grouping user interface elements of an application into groups based on a hierarchical arrangement ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7712052 | Applications of three-dimensional environments constructed from images Applications that extend the basic concept of determining spatial relationships between images and generating a model allowing users to experience the images in a 3D environment are provided. One application is directed to the creation of documents that may be readi... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707519 | Searchable registers The invention relates to a device for displaying information, data and/or input elements on an interface (4), in particular on a screen, with at least one register (1) for displaying a subset of information, data and/or input elements, with the at leas... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698659 | Methods and apparatus for formatting portion of content A system receives a selection of a portion of digital content within a graphical user interface. The system traverses the entire digital content to identify a plurality of components associated with the portion of digital content, and applies at least one policy to ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694239 | Selection and deselection of objects at multiple levels of a hierarchy Provided are techniques for viewing objects. A hierarchical structure is displayed, wherein the hierarchical structure includes two or more levels, and wherein each of the levels includes one or more objects. A control is provided to enable selection of one or more ... | 04/06/2010 |
