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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181124 | Method and apparatus for notification on an electronic handheld device using an attention manager A method and system for notification in a palm-sized computer system. Specifically, the present invention discloses an Attention Manager that manages application demand for a user's attention. The Attention Manager receives multiple attention requests from varying a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166010 | Processing and sending search results over a wireless network to a mobile device A search query is received over a wireless network (20), from a mobile device (10), and a response involves obtaining content summaries of search results relating to the search query, preparing a hypertext page for presentation by the mobile device. Th... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161416 | Navigator for displays Various embodiments include apparatus, methods, and systems for column navigation within a view of a table or other source of two-dimensional data. Various embodiments include method comprising displaying a first column of data from a plurality of columns of data in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156449 | Graphics stack system and method A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interf... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8141003 | Multipage navigation on a small screen device Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for improving user navigation of a multi-page article on a small screen user device. In embodiments, as a user progresses through the multi-page article, pages and/or lines of text of the multi-page article are cached. I... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8108801 | Host screen transformation for mobile devices having a reduced display size The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for improved display of host terminal applications on data processing systems having a small display size. In one embodiment, a host application translator reads characters stored in a char... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103974 | Event display apparatus and method An event display apparatus includes a configuration unit to configure a screen to include a time region, which is divided by time intervals along a first axis into a plurality of sub-time regions, and an event region, which is divided by event into a plurality of su... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8078993 | Operating multiple views on a computing device in connection with a wireless communication session Embodiments described herein include a computing device that is configured to generate a multi-view presentation. The computing device may include a wireless communication application that performs at least one of transmitting and receiving data wirelessly during a ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078953 | Math calculation in word processors Architecture for a word processing application that facilitates operating on mathematical symbols, expressions, and/or equations input to a word processing document, and returning results back to the document. User input to the document in the form of math symbols, ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8010897 | Method and apparatus for presenting electronic literary macramés on handheld computer systems Handheld computer game-playing systems and similar devices are here adapted for use as electronic readers for literature, specifically supporting complex literary and instructional forms, each a work of literature which is woven and knotted together using many threa... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001490 | System, method and computer program product for a content publisher for wireless devices A system, method and computer program product are provided for managing content for output on a wireless device. Content selected for output on a wireless device is displayed on a management screen substantially as it will be displayed on the wireless device. Organi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996793 | Gesture recognizer system architecture Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for a gesture recognizer system architecture. A recognizer engine is provided, which receives user motion data and provides that data to a plurality of filters. A filter corresponds to a gesture, that may th... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979810 | Method and mobile terminal for selecting a menu A method and mobile terminal for selecting a menu are disclosed. The present invention includes arranging at least two of a plurality of displayed menus in a preset manner and executing menus corresponding to a selected terminal input key. By arranging a plurality o... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7958461 | Method of inputting characters on a wireless mobile terminal Provided is a method in a wireless mobile terminal for inputting characters. The method includes computing a probability value for each character which may be entered after a user inputs a particular character from among characters assigned to each button on a key i... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949965 | Apparatus and method for processing map data and storage medium having information for controlling the processing of map data An information processing apparatus for displaying a map, displaying any data related to position information on the map, and effectively using the same even if map information is not provided in the information processing apparatus is disclosed. Image data and addi... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7930651 | Agenda display in an electronic device A method of controlling an electronic device includes retrieving from at least one database of the electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints, displaying the calendared events in a time-ordered list including a start date/time of each of the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7913192 | Methods and apparatus for retrieving and displaying map-related data for visually displayed maps of mobile communication devices One method involves causing a viewable map region of a map to be displayed, the viewable map region having points of interest (POI) indicators; monitoring to detect a user selection of one of the POI indicators; causing information corresponding to the POI indicator... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7877708 | Displaying messages on handheld devices A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date.... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7861189 | Information processing terminal displaying guidance for a key operation on a standby-screen A cellular phone and a guidance display program enable an enhancement of operability when operating the cellular phone, corresponding to an event. An occurrence of an event is detected, guidance information corresponding to the event is searched out of a guidance st... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7827508 | Hotkey function in digital camera user interface A digital camera comprising: a display; means for displaying on the display a menu of user selectable options; first user activated means for sequentially navigating through the displayed menu of user selectable options; and second user activated means for directly ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823090 | Information-processing apparatus and clock information display control method for use in the apparatus An apparatus controls a main display and a sub-display. The apparatus includes a section which displays, on the sub-display, clock information indicating of time, a section which acquires changed time information, when the time information has been changed, and a se... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814440 | Method for controlling display of indicators in wireless mobile terminal A method for allowing users to set a display of desired indicator icons indicating states of a wireless mobile terminal such as a battery status and a received signal strength. The method includes the steps of selecting an indicator setting menu, selecting an indica... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7802206 | Dynamic sizing user interface method and system for data display Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and devices for displaying information in a handheld device, comprising displaying information in a dynamically sizable cell in the display of the handheld device, wherein the cell comprises a portion of the dis... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7788301 | Metadata driven user interface A method (800) of displaying one or more data attributes, is disclosed. The displayed data attributes is associated with one or more portions of data. The method (800) dynamically compiles a list of one or more data attribute types according to an anal... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783993 | Content-based navigation and launching on mobile devices Techniques are disclosed for a content-based navigation and launching for portable computing devices such as PDAs and smart phones. A content navigator and launcher allows a user to personalize content groupings. The techniques can run on top of any OS file system t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779370 | User interface for mobile devices A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a mobile device is discussed. The method includes displaying on the mobile device a first view having a first search result element in an expanded format and a plurality of additional search result elements ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774722 | Creation and manipulation of canvases based on ink strokes A canvas in an inking application is created and manipulated based on ink strokes. An ink stroke outside a presented canvas, even outside a user interface of the inking application, is recorded and the presented canvas enlarged to cover the recorded ink stroke. If t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770137 | Methods, systems and computer program products for enhancing presence services Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing presence services. Such methods may include associating, in a database, a custom icon associated with a third party and a region and communicating a user presence in the associated region by ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765495 | Mobile terminal having rotating input device and method for operating the mobile terminal A method for displaying icons on a mobile terminal having a front side and an opposing rear side includes displaying a plurality of icons on a display located on the front side of the mobile terminal, receiving user input responsive to user-driven rotation of a rota... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761816 | Personalization content sharing system and method A method includes enabling a user to define his/her buddies from among members of a community and enabling the user to select media content to be played on devices of his/her buddies. Another method includes providing media content chosen by a first user to be playe... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761815 | Method for chatting, and terminal utilizing the method The invention relates to a method for utilizing a cellular terminal to simultaneously receive messages and process messages to be sent without the user having to change between display modes of the terminal. For instance, in response to a press of an alphanumeric ke... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747970 | Previews of information for selected download on auxiliary display Preview content is automatically downloaded to a user's device. When desired, the user may obtain more detailed information relating to the preview information. The more detailed information may be personalized to the user. The user may customize the preview content... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7730398 | Image stitching for mobile electronic devices A device and method for modifying content for use on a mobile electronic device. The content includes (i) a plurality of content image files each including graphics information for generating an associated image and (ii) computer instructions including references to... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7712053 | Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entry The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for explicit filtering in ambiguous text entry. The invention provides embodiments including various explicit text entry methodologies, such as 2-key and long pressing. The invention also provides means for mat... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702688 | Predictive data search A method for searching for data files stored in a mobile device is provided. The method includes accessing a memory including a plurality of data files, wherein each of the data files includes a file information field containing a character string. The method also i... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7673256 | Method and apparatus for indicating mobile electronic device status or state Apparatus for indicating mobile electronic device status comprising a database for storing mobile electronic device status information and associated color information; a set of light emitting diodes (LEDs); a processor for retrieving the color information based on ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669148 | System and methods for portable device for mixed media system A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). The MMR system pr... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665043 | Menu navigation and operation feature for a handheld computer A handheld computer is provided having a housing, a display and a processor. The processor is configured to detect an input corresponding to a menu request, to active a first menu on the display in response to the menu request, process navigation input that causes a... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7644376 | Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes Described is a method and system a unified mechanism for storing device, application, and service state, as well as a rich notification brokerage architecture. Clients register with a notification broker to receive notifications for changes to state properties. When... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7624359 | Server apparatus for outputting composed image including composed contents such as image and document in template, control method therefor, program for execution thereof by computer, and computer readable storage medium storing the program When a user client requests an output of a composed image in which contents such as an image or a document are composed in a frame provided by a printing provider, an instruction for the composition of the contents and the template by a simple operation can be made.... | 11/24/2009 |
